Loud Quote by Neil Gaiman

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“He was as inexpressive as he is to-day, and yet oddly obtrusive: one of those uncomfortable presences whose silence is an interruption.”

— Edith Wharton

“He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take…

— E. Lockhart

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent,…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation…

— Sydney Smith

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather

“And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very…

— Carson McCullers

He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone…

— Neil Gaiman

“The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant.…

— Ayn Rand

“He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“He'd been a shy, quiet, bookish kid, and that had been painful; now he was a big dumb guy, and nobody expected him to…

— Neil Gaiman