#quietness

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply. ↗

— Truman Capote

#malice #quietness #reply #tone

[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#evolution #food #humor #jodi-picoult #peace

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication. ↗

— Lee Krasner

#any #back #communication #dinner #inner

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?' ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#campaign #cheerleader #considered #even #hearts

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#forbidden #grief #happiness #inspirational #laws

Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea. ↗

— Kathleen Thompson Norris

#tea #women #change

They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#beer #confession #courage #drinking #quietness

There's quiet because you don't need to say anything, and then there's quiet because you don't want to say something. --Marisol ↗

— Francisco X. Stork

#death

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#quietness #life

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#forbearance #forever #quietness #root