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“Clem didn’t seem to have whatever ability it was that let other people “just tell,” and it felt as if there was an entire…

— K.J. Charles

“With the Musgroves there was the happy chat of perfect ease;[....] and with Captain Wentworth, some moments of communication continually occurring, and always the…

— Jane Austen

“During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.”

— Shirley Jackson

“His voice was cloves and nightingales.”

— Janet Fitch

“Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.”

— Isabel Allende

“Little notes of music trembled in hesitation, and burst, and rolled in quick, fine waves, like the thin, clear ringing of glass. Little notes…

— Ayn Rand

“The boy sang in a shrill high descant and seemed to be trying not to sing in tune.”

— Anton Chekhov

“It was clear that the composer no longer consoled himself with the thought that music could express everything and did not require verbal commentary.”

— Solomon Volkov

“But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.”

— David Pietrusza

“She glanced back at Chiron for guidance, but the centaur stood grim and silent as if he were watching a play he couldn’t interrupt…

— Rick Riordan

“It was not a musical voice, and yet it affected him like music.”

— Ann Patchett

“It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald