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Quotes About Screams

The noise was unbelievable … to the point where you could hardly hear the screams of men." Moreton Waitzman, US 29th Infantry Division, Omaha Beach
~ Stephen Bull
Between screams, Mom managed to cover the snake with a bucket, which she duct-taped to the floor, so that when Dad came home from work eight hours later in a suit and tie he found, in the dark, an enraged reptile—coiled and claustrophobic—waiting to strike. He just managed to slide a copy of the REO Speedwagon album You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't
~ Steve Rushin
The worst part was the silence. Death was supposed to be loud — gunshots, explosions, screams and thunder. Not this eerie quiet that wrapped around me like a shroud.
~ Karen Chance
Dracula shows his fangs, and the Okie flees through a cornfield. Cornstalks smack her face. "Help!" she screams to a sky full of crows. "He's not actually from Europe!
~ Karen Russell
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.
~ Brian Herbert
The UN is all screams and twitters, like a ladies' room when a guy barges in. A
~ Herman Wouk
For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or woman that hung down over the edge of the interrogation table. Then she would squat down on the stool and and look into the face and quietly say 'No. 1' or 'No. 10' or 'No. 25' and the inquisitors would know what she meant and they would begin. And she would watch the eyes in the face a few inches away from hers and breathe in the screams as if they were perfume.
~ Ian Fleming
We go to partake of death. And it is in these moments, before the blades are unsheated, before blood wets the ground and screams fill the air, that the futility descends upon us all. Without our armor, we would all weep.
~ Steven Erikson
And so we weep for the fallen. We weep for those yet to fall, and in war the screams are loud and harsh and in peace the wail is so drawn-out we tell ourselves we hear nothing.
~ Steven Erikson
Sites of battle held on to a madness, as if the blood that had soaked into the soil remembered pain and terror and held locked within it the echoes of screams and death cries.
~ Steven Erikson
And so we weep for the fallen. We weep for those yet to fall, and in war the screams are loud and harsh and in peace the wail is so drawn-out we tell ourselves we hear nothin
~ Steven Erikson
That was the day I most remember, now that I fly over battlefields and the screams of dying men echo up to me as fate falls like soot from my gray wings.
~ Nancy Springer
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
~ Thomas Harris
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room full of dark stains drying.
~ Thomas Harris
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams." Annie, who's on Johanna's other side, does that thing where she covers her ears and exits reality. Finnick shoots Johanna an angry look as his arm encircles Annie. "What? My head doctor says I'm not supposed to censor my thoughts. It's part of my therapy," replies Johanna.
~ Suzanne Collins
Where did they get those screams, Katniss?
~ Suzanne Collins
Laughter changes to screams, blood stains pastel stones, real smoke darkens the special effect stuff made for television.
~ Suzanne Collins
I've been, like, dancing in the living room with the baby, because when it screams and stuff, it soothes him.
~ Artem Chigvintsev
They were the screams of riders torn apart by the twisted reflections of their own inner selves.
~ Neal Shusterman
All I get to hear in the mornings are loud screams of my babies. It's such a chaos but a new joy of life.
~ Kashmira Shah
the island chain had achieved such a terrible reputation, thanks to its reefs and to the unearthly screams of the island's millions of cahows, that mariners were calling Bermuda the Isle of Devils.
~ Kieran Doherty
Luke ignites his lightsaber and screams in anger, rushing at his father with a frenzy we have not seen before.
~ Carol Titelman
Courtney didn't like babies at the best of times. As far as she was concerned, anything that existed solely to emit drool, vomit, ghastly odors and loud, annoying screams was more trouble than it was worth.
~ Ted Naifeh
Left with no choice, Janice curled up on the bed where she drowned in her sadness. ~ Janice woke in the darkness to a woman's screams. Moonlight from
~ Catherine Scott