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Quotes About Whispered

Socrates's daimon (the one who spoke first within him ) whispered to him: no. My daimon, on the contrary, is my stupidity: like the Nietzschean ass, I say yes to everything, in the field of my love.
~ Roland Barthes
New warmth stirred the air, and the wheat moved and eddied, with a whispered rustle, as if waking up.
~ Lee Child
I must make a plan," he murmured aloud.
~ Liam O'Flaherty
Grinning, he grabbed his fisherman's cap and coat. "I love you," he whispered quietly. "Ikh hob dikh lib." He kissed Evie's head. She rustled in her sleep, turning away. "Fine. I see how it is. I just wasted my best Yiddish on you," Sam joked to himself.
~ Libba Bray
Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain.
~ Donna Wilk Cardillo
she whispered through the pain,
~ Douglas E. Richards
Good night, Owe," she whispered. "Good night, Red. Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite." "You would have to mention bugs," she muttered. Owen laughed.
~ Joan Johnston
I'll tell you a family secret," she whispered enthusiastically. "It's about the butler's nose. Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" "That's why I came over to-night.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. "Look at that," she whispered, and then after a moment: "I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I thought I might get a part as a farmer. I knew about the books but I hadn't read them. A few weeks later, an actor whispered in my ear, 'It sounds like you're in line for James Herriot.' I read every book in about 48 hours.
~ Christopher Timothy
What a bunch of geeks,' James whispered. 'I bet these dudes don't even fart.
~ Robert Muchamore
This woman wasn't fat anywhere. She was slim as a whispered secret, and twice as dangerous, too.
~ Robert Rankin
There could be love, Jonas whispered.
~ Lois Lowry
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love," Jonas whispered.
~ Lois Lowry
Mia Maz glanced aside in concern at his muffled snort. Are you all right? Yes. Sorry, he whispered. I'm just having an attack of limericks. Her eyes widened, and she bit her lip; only her deepening dimple betrayed her. Shhh, she said, with feeling.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Tell her about it," he whispered to the doctor. "I can't." "Need we distress—" "Now. Get it over with." His voice cracked and croaked.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Ever been watched?" he whispered, his expression heavy with dark desire. Breathing heavily, Kelly stared back at him. She wasn't shocked, she realized. She had heard too much about the Nauti Boys. Too many tales of their sexual excesses, their uninhibited immersion into their sensual games.
~ Lora Leigh
That was all I wanted! whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.
~ Louisa May Alcott
In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his predominating idea presented itself, and whispered in his ear that he had slept too long.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The demon which had whispered this idea to him would not leave him, buzzing in his ear with that persistence which rapidly ensures that some doubts, by the sole force of reasoning, become certainties.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Adele," she mouthed. Mary looked up, she couldn't help it, toward the desk where Adele sat, her back to them, her dirty blond hair draped perfectly over her lovely shoulders. "Rita," another girl from the office, "saw them both," Pauline whispered. "At lunch." She
~ Alice McDermott
You know,' I whispered, 'some girls might think it's creepy having a boy watch them sleep.' He smirked and pointed to himself. 'Spy.' 'Oh.' I nodded. 'Right. So you're a trained Peeping Tom.' 'Product of the best peeping academies in the country.' 'Well, now I feel much better.' 'You should.
~ Ally Carter
Your grandfather's dream—' he whispered, like all his grand schemes could be unfucked. Like King Scale could be unkilled.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I can't dance, remember?" I whispered. "It's just a tango. It is like sex, except with clothes on." Then, squeezing me closer: "Oh, I'm sorry. I forgot, you do not know how to do that either.
~ Joe Schreiber