Fragments Quote by Shirley Jackson Download Open image ““During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.”” — Shirley Jackson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fragments
“No one sang up there. No one ever laughed too loud. Even the gods were silent.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Think about it, I said. We all had to come out of the dark to sing.” — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’ ‘really? How did that happen?’ ‘it all just drained out.” — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
“And then, abruptly, the voice turned to a different tone—sharper, harsher, more desperate. Then it hushed altogether. The sensation was like sitting by a… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“It worried me that perhaps my voice was permanently damaged. I couldn’t stand to think that was the case. I would be Sang, the… — C.L. Stone Copy Share Image
“I danced. I danced without music. I screamed without sound. I celebrated in silence, in the dark, behind the curtains where no one could… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
“At night, I served them dinner, and they each received the meal in pointed silence, gaze lowered to the platter of rice, the quiet… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“I am cooking without a recipe, singing without the words, and dancing badly by myself.” — Alyssa Shelasky Copy Share Image
“All of the people took it up and sung it over and over until it was wrung dry, and no further innovations of tone… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“The sound of her voice was painful. She screamed, sobbed, whispered Hallelujah. But she never sang it.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“She could not remember ever being truly happy in her adult life; her years with her mother had been built up devotedly around small… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“The beautiful clarity of all marked outlines occurred to her--there would be a deep satisfaction in strengthening fences, for instance, going along on the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?” — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“It was as though the people needed the ugliness of the village, and fed on it. The houses and the stores seemed to have… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“Eleanor—“I plan to stay up and read for a while.” “Are you still reading Pamela?” Eleanor asked the doctor. “Volume two. I have three… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“it’s quite a hazard, quite a hazard indeed, people knocking you down. Still, it’s a genuine pleasure to find one as willing as you… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
“I could think of any moment and see him weaved throughout it. It was as though his soul was interwoven with mine” — M.R. Field Copy Share Image
Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists… — Linda Olsson Copy Share Image
The idea of photography as evidence is pure bullshit. A photo is no more proof of any reality than what you may hear being… — Marc Riboud Copy Share Image
Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
...Forgiving is not having to understand. Understanding may come later, in fragments, an insight here and a glimpse there, after forgiving. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since. — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
All I want is to become someone new. In this case, Tobias Johnson, son of Evelyn Johnson. Tobias Johnson may have lived a dull… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“I knew that in the last few minutes everything had changed. I'd tried to hold myself apart, showing only what I wanted, doling out… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
