Quotes About Creaks

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

And I wonder if the world is not silent— to be inside of—if it groans, if it creaks as it turns.

The night snows stars and the earth creaks.

Ngemi creaks, beside her. "Was he in a better mood, then?" he asks. "He showed me his gun." "This is England, girl," Ngemi says. "People don't have guns.

Three creaks. She stepped three times. What is the meaning of it? Three creaks, three weeks? If she comes back for her shoes in three days, then I only need to empty them another three times. If it really is three weeks that were meant, what then. If three months, what then. Three years. That's why I had to write it down now. By then I may no longer believe I heard anything in Miri's room.

Woodwork creaks and out come the freaks, eh?

In the night, the house settled. Creaks sounded in the hallways like errant footsteps, windows popped in their frames, china rattled in the cupboards, and pictures suddenly slipped awry on the walls.

A shadow? Oh, darling, all that lives in this house are shadows and reflections and creaks and groans. So you'd better soothe that boundless imagination of yours from now on." Edith