Difficult Quote by Samuel Beckett

...and she felt the words come from some iron place within her that hadn't existed an hour ago. She didn't speak loudly, but there…

— Laini Taylor

“She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all…

— Mike A. Lancaster

“But the music did not come again. The tune was left broken, unfinished. And the drawn tightness she could no longer stand. She felt…

— Carson McCullers

Her eyes were distant, and she seemed to be listening to that voice that first told her the story, a mother, sister, or aunt.…

— Shannon Hale

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds…

— Mark Helprin

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the…

— Ann Brashares

“The words (she was looking at the window) sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water out there, cut off from them…

— Virginia Woolf

…always felt the pain of her friends so keenly that she could not speak easy, fluent words of comforting. Besides, she remembered how well-meant…

— Anonymous

The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last…

— Carson McCullers

“She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most…

— Alice Sebold

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words…

— Marguerite Duras

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

— Abraham Verghese