Quote by William Faulkner

“I saw their mouths going up and down without a sound, as if they were sitting on the deck of a departing ship, stranding…

— Sylvia Plath

“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed…

— Iain M. Banks

“And isn’t silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore?”

— Justin Cronin

“I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center.…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“His voice had the ability to make all of the noise inside my head cease.”

— Ella Frank

“On a ship, knowing when to be silent is just as important as knowing when to speak.”

— J.Z. Colby

“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose…

— Denis Johnson

“So seemed it to me, as I stood at her helm, and for long hours silently guided the way of this fire-ship on the…

— Herman Melville

“He felt as though he were hailing a ship.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear…

— James Joyce

“Then the ship gave sudden lurches that made it a matter of uncertainty whether one was going to put his fork in his mouth…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The Loud came before the quiet. That was a Rule of the World, for the bangs and shouts need somewhere to echo, just as…

— Hugh Howey