John Boyne Quotes

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.

n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s

All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

In the corridors under tehre is nothing but sleep. And stiller than ever on orchard boughs they keep Tryst with the moon, and deep is the silence, deep On moon-washed apples of wonder.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Silence is best.

I love silence.

I like silence.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches. The solitary traveler, haunter of lanes, disturber of ferns, and devastator of hemlock plants, looking up, suddenly sees the giant figure at the end of the ride.

But, the best times I have found, in my life, are late at night or early in the morning and I think it's because you're outside the social realm.

Take time to be quiet.

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

The world is quiet here.

But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.

See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.