Quote by Nicole Peeler

“In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.”

— Jasper Fforde

“I could have sworn laughter rumbled down the hall.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“The house was full of murmuring voices. I could practically feel each room getting choked with the hot breath of other people.”

— Adam Rapp

“The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled…

— Cherie Priest

“There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters a room.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“On the day you left, every door closed. I can still remember the sound. Everything, and then nothing.”

— Jesse Warner

“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end…

— Flann O'Brien

“fortunately it came out as a mere breath of sound. Another body turned over, rustling,”

— Diana Gabaldon

“and then we hear a noise like … a town being dropped, and everything in it smashing to bits.”

— David Mitchell

“What sound was that? I turn away, into the shaking room. What was that sound that came in on the dark? What is this…

— Harold Pinter

“His hands slid around my head, pulling me back to his mouth. There was a cracking sound in the house. A fissure of electricity…

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“You could have heard a rat tinkle it was so quiet.”

— Annie Knox