Quiet Quotes - Page 35

• When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Hate, Voice, Needs

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve been around many girls who have been super outgoing. And a lot of times, they would say to me, “Why are you so quiet? What’s wrong with you?” And I’m like, “I don’t know. That’s just the way I am.” So if I found the perfect girl she would totally get that and say, “You’re quiet, and that’s the way I love you.

  Adam Young

  Girl, Love You, Perfect

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• That's my favorite thing about him. I like to lie next to him when it's late, dark, and so quiet I can hear my own heartbeat. It's times like that when I'm sure that I'm in love.

  Lauren Oliver

  Lying, Dark, Next

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.34, Harper Collins

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• I force my eyes upward and look at Mia for the first time. She's still beautiful. Not in an obvious Vanessa LeGrande or Bryn Shraeder kind of way. In a quiet way that's always been devastating to me. Her hair, long and dark, is down now, swimming damply against her bare shoulders, which are still milky white and covered with the constellation of freckles that I used to kiss. The scar on her left shoulder, the one that used to be an angry red weld is silvery pink now. Almost like the latest rage in tattoo accessories. Almost pretty.

  Gayle Forman

  Tattoo, Beautiful, Eye

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.135, Penguin

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• Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow. You'll be amazed at what will come out on paper. I'm still learning what it is about the past that I want to write. I don't worry about it. It will emerge. It will insist on being told.

  Frank McCourt

  Memories, Writing, Past

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• Reader, I kissed her. A quiet walk we had, she and I.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Walks, Reader

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• Could the two people who are making out please be quiet?" the Colonel asked loudly from his sleeping bag. "Those of us who are not making out are drunk and tired.

  John Green

  Tired, Sleep, Two

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.95, Penguin

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• We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Use, Nasty

  "The Hobbit". 75th Anniversary Edition,

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• There are some people who cannot help giving. Why? Because they experience a real psychological pleasure in doing so. They don't do it with an eye to their own advantage, they do it on the quiet; they detest doing it openly because that would take away some of the satisfaction. They do it in secret, with quick trembling hands, their breasts rocked by a spiritual well being which they do not themselves understand.

  Knut Hamsun

  Spiritual, Real, Eye

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• When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Knives, Needs, Earth

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.913, Simon and Schuster

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• Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the sound of his voice. Trey released my arm and shrugged, grinning. “I just wanted an oyster, and she wouldn’t serve me.” I opened my mouth to protest when the warm fingers holding my arm softly squeezed me for reassurance. So, I stayed quiet. “Jason, please escort your friend to the door. I have no other reason to speak with him unless Sadie has a bruise or any lasting marks from his hands, and then he will see me again.

  Abbi Glines

  Doors, Hands, Oysters

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• Quietly, Macey went through her options. Even though the masked men were asking for cell phones, the gunmen were making so much noise that she was sure someone had already called 911. The obvious exits were blocked, and the elevators had no doubt been disabled. The men moved with confidence and order, but they weren’t trying to be quiet. There was nothing covert at all about this operation. Unlike the boy beside her.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Men, Phones

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• I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

  Emily Giffin

  Unfinished Business, Encounters, Stubborn

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.335, Macmillan

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• Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

  James Lee Burke

  Morning, Men, Mirrors

  James Lee Burke (2013). “Creole Belle: A Dave Robicheaux Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster

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• I like a quiet life, you know me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Know Me, Knows, Harry Potter

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Book by J. K. Rowling, 2005.

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• The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Silence, Missing, Truth Is

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• I let my head fall forward into his shoulder, breathing in his scent. "Now what do we do?" He's quiet for a while and I finally lean back to look him in the eyes. He appears conflicted by something and then he sets me down on the ground, lacing his fingers through mine. "Should we see where the wind takes us?" he asks. I stare at my hand in his and then look up at him. "That sounds good to me.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Fall, Eye, Hands

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

  Daniel Handler

  Reading, Library, World

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

  Tupac Shakur

  Ocean, Rapper, Hip Hop

  Song: Until the End of Time, 2001

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• Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

  Susan Cain

  Book, People, Guilt

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.7, Broadway Books

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• There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that’s a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don’t fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything’s quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep—then they appear.

  Tove Jansson

  Summer, Spring, Believe

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Moominland Midwinter”, p.40, Macmillan

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• With respect," said Red, and his voice had gone so quiet people hushed each other to hear him, "my tale is yet unfinished; you should hear me out. And it is her answer I have come to hear, not yours.

  Juliet Marillier

  Quiet People, Voice, Gone

  Juliet Marillier (2008). “Daughter of the Forest: A Sevenwaters Novel 1”, p.259, Pan Australia

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• Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

  Jennifer Worth

  Reflection, Matter, Impossible

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• Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Sunshine, Garden, Compassion

  Jerzy Kosinski (2007). “Being There”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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