Silence Quote by Patricia Highsmith Download Open image ““A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout.”” — Patricia Highsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Silence Trout
“Drunk, he was leering and silent and mostly asleep. Sober, he was a watcher, a horror of a man who missed nothing and commented… — Donal Ryan Copy Share Image
“All around him were what other people called mirrors , which he called leaks . The entire wall which separated the lobby from the cocktail lounge was a leak ten feet high and thirty-feet long. There was another leak on the cigarette machine and yet another on the candy machine. And when Trout looked through them to see what was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share
“There was a fine thing about that trout. I only wish I could have made a death mask of him. Not of his body… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“He was drunk, but this was something he’d thought about for a long time and needed no sobriety to express—just a listener.” — Olen Steinhauer Copy Share Image
“His own eyes were soft and dreamy, cloudy as a trout pool in the rain.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Buddy eyed me closely. His eyes were filigreed with red. I watched as he went through one of those instantaneous mood swings that only… — G.M. Ford Copy Share Image
“It wasn't an effect of alcohol. It was more like we got drunk on the night.” — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“One should never see a drinking establishment well lit, he thought, it just makes it look even sadder.” — Graham McNeill Copy Share Image
“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb… — Chester Bennington Copy Share Image
I just can’t, Nick, okay? Now, please give me a second to lie here in silence and bleed.” – Caleb — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“SILENT LIKE SLEEP You appear by my side, silent like sleep. Soft hair, a little wild. No fear, gentle like a calm river. I… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Silence can be the world's strongest weapon in torturing people's emotions. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“Proverbs from the East: The wind howls, but the mountain remains still. Even though I make no special attempt to observe the discipline of… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“When all are one sentience, Language withers and fades away. Let's sit together and speak in silence, Let's be light to each other's way.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I suppose he'll just have to do," she amended. "You'll have to suffer in silence with your male model...I feel for you." "Oh, stop… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“I once asked you what anxiety felt like, and you told me that most days left you riddled with bullet holes. Every morning came… — d.a.s Copy Share Image
