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Quotes About Whispers

In Antwerp they slide the printed sheets of the gospels between the folds of bales of cloth, where they hide, white against white. Warm, nestled, God whispers within each bundle; His word sails the sea, is unloaded in eastern ports, travels to London in a cart.
~ Hilary Mantel
You come from nothing, and it is to nothing you will return,¨ he whispers against my neck. ( judes dream ) Page 48
~ Holly Black
Anticipation whispers through the trees, like an indrawn breath. Urging me on.
~ Holly Black
The birch trees loom ahead like a brotherhood of ghosts.
~ Lisa Ann Sandell
Aphrodite put off her famous belt, in which all the charms of love are woven, potency, desire, lovely whispers, and the force of seduction, which takes away foresight and judgment even from the most reasonable people.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
East of Ordinary There exists the landscape where you take yourself by the hand. Where you walk forward trembling with tears running down your face, West of Doubt where you fear your greatness and embrace it anyway. We join hands and listen for the whispers of how we each make a difference. North of Hello we gather the courage for the doing. South of Regret we loosen our jaws, lean our shoulders away from our ears, let our eyes turn upwards. It need not be hard, we have each other.
~ Unknown
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Positioned on my dresser, that white-as-snow rose is a personal message to me. It speaks of unfinished business. It whispers, I can find you. I can reach you. Perhaps I am watching you now.
~ Suzanne Collins
As C.S. Lewis says, "God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.
~ Peter Kreeft
The Slimeballs Whose Names Should Not Be Mentioned but I'll Do It Anyway. The Massa.
~ Peter Lerangis
But there had always been ghosts in the mountains, everyone knew that.
~ Philip Pullman
Have you ever heard the term 'the secret commonwealth' ?" "No. What does it refer to?" "To the world of half-seen things and half heard whispers. To things that are regarded by clever people as superstition. To fairies, spirits, hauntings, things of the night.
~ Philip Pullman
That day, that moment, opened a curiosity of bodies, shaped us as irrevocably as our first kiss, our first realizations. You go into that moment never really knowing if the closeness will wear well, if it is something that should happen. I know she wasn't sure of me, and I wasn't sure of me, either. But we discovered something in the unspoken, found care in our caring whispers, instinctive.
~ David Levithan
one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.
~ Dean Koontz
Above this crystal pool are rows of lighted candles, flames flickering in the wind. Carved orange lanterns line the crags. O, ignisfatuus, foolish fire. O, the lantern in the mire. Spirits quaking with the light, demon darkness, far too bright. Orange whispers, yellow cries; ever-haunting, numb good-byes. Good-bye, O childhood; Farewell, my nickel joys.
~ Unknown
Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.
~ Craig Silvey
Whispers can't hurt you," Pandora said. Cassandra gave her twin a chiding glance. "Whispers can gut and fillet you like a haddock.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Gossip never has to be true. It only has to be interesting.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Gossip has nowhere to go except in circles.
~ Lisa Kleypas
People were pointing and muttering to each other
~ Liz Kessler
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Rumors multiplied like bacteria. One
~ Vincent Bugliosi
In THE WHISPERS, I played a father, with an amazingly talented actor, Kyle Breitkopf. I've played a dad a lot, so it's nice again to be in that world [in This Is Us].
~ Milo Ventimiglia
The vampires did make sounds then, as their quarry started to flee - little whispers, laughs, strange hisses, all kinds of creepy noises that made the skin on the back of Claire's neck tighten up.
~ Rachel Caine