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Quotes About Voice

But here, surrounded by friends who wanted her, she recognized for the first time that there was only one voice that truly mattered. Only one she had to listen to. Her own.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Voice, according to Miss Wilcox, is not just the sound that comes from your throat but the feeling that comes from your words
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
I'm dating Brandon," I told his bowed head. "Really?" he asked without looking up. "Yes!" "I'll print you a wallet card to whip out every time you need to say that, so you can save your voice." "Could you laminate it?
~ Jennifer Echols
His voice was soft and jis smile was kind
~ Jennifer Echols
They must have looked like traveling companions, Phoebe thought, possibly even a couple. She noticed her voice leaning into laughter, how she tossed her head, each tiny gesture like the sweet ache of a muscle craving exercise.
~ Jennifer Egan
Well, I'm the guy talking. Someone's always doing the talking, just a lot of times you don't know who it is or what their reasons are.
~ Jennifer Egan
It can be a site of reverie or rebellion; a form of propaganda or an idiosyncratic way of responding to the world: its openness to what it can be is one of its – if not its greatest – sources of power. It can be a response to anything and made anywhere by anyone: it can give permission to the silenced to speak or create a lexicon for the illiterate; it can lend the world shape and make it graspable to those who feel that it is out of reach.
~ Jennifer Higgie
Why do I have to tell a story?" I asked. "Because if you don't tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Women shouldn't have to fade into the background to be safe.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
I sunk into velvety nothingness. It caressed my skin, lapped at my temples, the nape of my neck. It circled me like smoke, its touch light, but all consuming. And just as I was about to lose consciousness, I heard the voice. 'Hello, Kali. I'm Zev.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
telling the story so no one else tells it for you.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Now. Close the book. But first—remember to open yourself up to love and possibility, to almostness and maybe. Use your voice. Let others in. Choose your future. Choose your body. Choose yourself. And go out there and write your life.
~ Jennifer Niven
Yes Leopold, Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.
~ Eloisa James
Si vous me demandez ce que je viens faire en ce monde, moi artiste, je vous répondrai: je viens vivre tout haut.
~ Émile Zola
The obligation of a writer is to live out loud.
~ Émile Zola
Bon ! cria-t-elle, j'avais déjà oublié que vous étiez là, vous ! Vous pourriez bien tousser avant de parler. Vous avez une voix qui part brusquement comme celle d'un mort.
~ Émile Zola
The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.
~ Emily Bronte
Instead of finding her outside, I heard her voice within. The little monkey had crept by the skylight of one garret, along the roof, into the skylight of the other, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could coax her out again. When she did come, Heathcliff came with her;
~ Emily Bronte
Solamente el silencio nos da miedo. En la voz siempre hay algo que nos salva. Sin embargo, el silencio es lo infinito. No se le ve la cara.
~ Emily Dickinson
I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.
~ Emily Giffin
Her voice is as warm and soothing as the carbohydrates they will share.
~ Emily Giffin
A strident female voice causes men's ears to close.
~ Emma Donoghue
Let me tell you something: when you dance, you are the greatest dancer who has ever lived. And when you sing, you will have the courage to raise your voice to the heavens, knowing that you may never get an answer.
~ Emma Forrest