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Quotes About Silence

Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.
~ Kim Harrison
Trent, is this a date? He didn't reach for the key still in the ignition. You never told me how your car got impounded. Is this a date? I asked again, more stridently. Silent, he sat there, his hands on the wheel as he stared at the front door and the neon bowling pins flashing on and off. I want it to be.
~ Kim Harrison
You have the right to remain silent, but I doubt you will. You have the right to an attorney, which I imagine Quen will be calling soon. If you can't afford one, hell has frozen over and I'm the princess of Oz, but in that case, one will be appointed to you. You understand your rights that the entire congregation of Cincy's finest has heard me recite?
~ Kim Harrison
You're big enough to bite now, mosquito, so shut up.
~ Kim Harrison
Ivy?" I called as I went belowdecks, fear winding between my soul and reason when she didn't answer. The silence ate away at my hope like bitter acid, drop by drop, breath by breath.
~ Kim Harrison
If you don't say it's wrong, then you're telling them you agree.
~ Kim Harrison
Turning to Trent, I said, "You have the right to remain silent, but I doubt you will. You have the right to an attorney, which I imagine Quen will be calling soon. If you can't afford one, hell has frozen over and I'm the princess of Oz, but in that case, one will be appointed to you. You understand your rights that the entire congregation of Cincy's finest has heard me recite?
~ Kim Harrison
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
That's why you aren't hearing from anyone out there. That's why the great silence persists. There are many other living intelligences out there, no doubt, but they can't leave their home planets any more than we can, because life is a planetary expression, and can only survive on its home planet." "But
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
after over a century of such noise, the windy silence of the outdoors was strange, a kind of aural hollowness.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
V?n nh?ng vi?c làm t?t s? ??p hÆ¡n khi chúng ???c thá»±c hi?n th?m l?ng, ph?i làm sao cho vi?c t?t Ä'ang ???c tay trái làm mà tay ph?i không bi?t
~ Kim Woo-Choong
Malcolm said nothing to that. He swayed from side to side in his chair as a way of suggesting that life held many such small puzzles.
~ Kingsley Amis
At 4 o'clock in the morning while the world sleeps off its judgment... (page 214)
~ Kingsolver Barbara
You walk down the street and people are just graveyards, really.
~ Kirk Read
A shaft of sweetness shoots through me from top to toe when the sun rises; I shoulder my gun in silent exaltation.
~ Knut Hamsun
The ships whose masts I saw outlined against the sky looked, with their black hulls, like silent monsters that were raising their hackles and lying in wait for me.
~ Knut Hamsun
Og intet Rop, intet Menneskes Ord hørtes noget Sted, ingenting, men bare det tunge Sus omkring mit Hode.
~ Knut Hamsun
Min hjærne randt mig stille ut av hodet og gjorde mig tom.
~ Knut Hamsun
Io ridevo, ridevo e mi battevo sulle ginocchia, ridevo come un invasato. E non un suono mi usciva dalla gola, la mia risata era tisica e silenziosa, mi sgorgava dal cuore come un pianto.
~ Knut Hamsun
Av tre ting og ikke mere, svarer Ezra: av kornet på marken, av fisken i sjøen og av dyr og fugl i skogen. Av de tre ting. Jeg har tænkt på det. Der er nu endel som lever av penger – Nei, sa Ezra, ikke et liv! Taushet.
~ Knut Hamsun
Om vinteren lå almænningen er stille og hvit og fuld av sne under nordlyset, om sommeren luktet det av hægg og barskog så det var en stor vederkvægelse. Det var som ta ind et måltid av stærke sjøfuglægg.
~ Knut Hamsun
Går De her og tenker? Nei, svarer han. Om jeg tenker? Nei jeg går her bare.
~ Knut Hamsun
dilsiz ve bitkindi benim kahkaham aÄŸlamak özlemi ta??yordu
~ Knut Hamsun
Frank said nothing. Which was a good answer.
~ Knut Hamsun