Disperse Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

“I swallowed, feeling my pulse race, and gave silent thanks that there were no eyewitnesses to my blushing, which could have set a cigar…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A peaceful wave came over me, and I thought, Thank God I’m holding my breath.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.”

— Philip Pullman

“And if I wavered for the instant it was not with what I kept back.”

— Henry James

“The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.”

— Virginia Woolf

“They had become muffled and distant then anyway. This happened in those first days after the wave. I couldn't find their faces, they quivered…

— Sonali Deraniyagala

“It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.”

— George R.R. Martin

“If a hand, a situation, a wave were ever to raise me up and carry me to where I could command power and influence,…

— Robert Walser

“There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there…

— Virginia Woolf

“The flag was waving in the wind. Now whether it was waving hello or goodbye, I do not know.”

— Jarod Kintz

“And suddenly everything around me seemed to grow quiet, as if he were the wind that blew and I were just a cloud carried…

— Arthur Golden

“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain…

— Jaclyn Moriarty