She said quietly, “When the human to be struck is merely another robot.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“The Shetani’s attacks began nearly a century ago, right after the Rupture,” he said quietly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It was said very quietly, almost casually—a statement, not a command. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I began to weep quietly, aware that in that time-suspended moment I was in the presence of genius. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He goes through the gate, turning to close it quietly behind him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lee, noticing the change in him, asked quietly, “You haven’t found a girl, have you?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you worry your pretty little head,” he tells me quietly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I go all the way in and quietly shut the door behind me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are all going to have to be very brave,” he says quietly. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

This time Jenny read the letter in its entirety to the family, and then she quietly passed it to her father and to Jethro for rereading. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is my notebook,” I answered quietly, afraid he would take it away. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a simple matter,” the agent said quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest ones had been here before George Washington was born, before the Mayflower sailed, when the only people here were Native Americans quietly hunting and fishing among the trees. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Hanging out of the window to look at a Muggle?” said Gaunt quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Others quietly intoned: “I’m not saying it’s good, I’m not saying it’s bad. Let’s just wait and see what happens.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Turner tried to close the door slowly and quietly, it shrieked out his presence like a guilty accomplice, and they all turned to look at him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But even silent, the bridge had always seemed very wise to Tally, as quietly knowing as some ancient tree. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And my mother would thank me quietly, just as she always had. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank God you got here,” he said quietly, letting them through. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He finally went up to Parker and quietly told him, his voice sounding as if he was about to cry, “Every Maverick, and every person in Marshall, is proud of you.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked about all day quietly speculating about what the lieutenant could have told his men. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I put the box down quietly and hurried back into my room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as possible, I reached over and scooped him up. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the hall, I saw people sitting in rooms reading books and talking quietly together, doing math problems, or sitting in the library. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I would not distress you,” Nathan said quietly, “yet must we not face the truth so that we can make our decisions? Have I told you anything you do not know yourself?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rest of the country has fitfully cut back welfare and continues to debate class disparities and the barriers to mobility, Whitiker has quietly traversed several classes in a single lifetime. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She was already starting, as quietly as she could, step by step, to back away toward the mantelpiece. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Talking quietly, he led them down the narrow hallway and through the great front hall and to the stairs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather calls for a glass of water, waiting quietly as I drink it down, his hand never leaving my shoulder. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Be my good little baby bird,” she said quietly, and slipped the pill onto my tongue. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Audience members laugh quietly as they so obviously get question after question wrong. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After several minutes of quietly waiting, a man who had been standing in line with everyone else proclaimed himself the bus driver and asked everyone to follow him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My dad has been quietly rubbing his palms for the last few minutes, not saying a word. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Wen Zhou, our subject, his face fleshy like a boy’s, sat quietly for us in his tiny, orderly studio apartment in Morningside Heights. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard the door close quietly, and almost simultaneously he was outside my door, opening it for me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“By the fire. Just come quietly. Don’t make a noise.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders bobbed up and down, and she whimpered quietly, every so often wiping her face with the edge of Héctor’s baby blanket. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walked to the door and called quietly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new terminology was adopted quietly, casually, carelessly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Have you wondered?” she asked quietly, “if maybe there really was a curse?” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

She dressed quietly and quickly and followed him to the front room where the small, thin tree stood decorated on the coffee table. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched without a word or a smile, making sure the classes filed quietly into their rooms, where teachers sat with lesson plans on their cluttered desks and assignments on the whiteboards. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I said quietly, “Auntie, when is Uncle Katsuhisa going to quit his job at the hatchery and become a land surveyor?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then, very quietly, as he listened, he heard the front door open, the rain and wind come in, the door shut. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, your big sister will look after you,” she whispers quietly into my hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But surely,” she said quietly, “this is the Mudblood girl? This is Granger?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When Ged asked him no more he quietly bade the young man good night, and went off up the narrow stepped street above the quays. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Too weak to resist, the carrot quietly surrendered to the force of his jaws. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lyra said quietly, “Will, is this the world of the dead?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He smiles quietly into his fist the entire time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Some things you just can’t fight,” Nina said quietly, after a time. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then quietly, more as if speaking to herself than to him: 'But the healers would have me lie abed seven days yet,’ she said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly for a long time, watching them battle. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lázaro wrapped around one of his pillows and snored quietly into it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Rashid glanced at Frankie, then at Z. “Get out of here. I’ll be right behind you,” he said quietly, stepping forward yet again as Diana followed his movements with the gun. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She quietly walked over to Nathan and opened the door for him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was walking very fast but very quietly, until I accidentally stepped on the tail of a snake. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mary walked quietly out and shut the door, and Tom turned over on the bed and put his face down between his arms. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might also be a place where I could quietly read genetics. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to do or say, so I just sat as quietly as he did. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bast made a show of offering up his stool to the injured man, then quietly took a seat as far from the smith’s prentice as possible. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She stood quietly, listening to the devil’s bombardment that held us with such terror that we could not move. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he begins to lecture Amit about the state of the Bangladeshi economy, I sit quietly and finish my fourth cup of tea since the morning. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went out of the room and turned the door to quietly. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The grass crunched quietly, as if even the earth was frightened of where I was headed. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should let this go, Bailey,” his mother says quietly after his father leaves the room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then very quietly he turned and said to me, “You know what the biggest problem was with the marines out in the Pacific Islands?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Luma pursed her lips in a tiny sign of disgust and kept pacing, quietly. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes. We’ve got to walk closer. But quietly. He doesn’t like loud noises.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is he showing it to us?” her dæmon said quietly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This is where the gods live,” he said quietly, “and if you call out to them, they will answer.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to walk so quietly that Dustfinger wouldn’t hear him, and when Dustfinger turned he stopped like a thief caught in the act. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Outside there was a rustling early summer movement of the wind; the seniors, allowed out later than we were, came fairly quietly back as the bell sounded ten stately times. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the two bowls of soup and we watch quietly in his room. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I take a few steps back, turn, and flee quietly to my room. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child, he walked along, peacefully, quietly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes Rat waited with him, quietly watching the hootch, then he patted the kid’s shoulder and left him alone. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A teacher had coughed quietly on the other side, and said, “Dear, you’re free of boogers. Trust me. I can see quite clearly.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dad talked very quietly and gently to his sons. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quietly push open the door, looking both ways before sneaking out of the pre-op area and almost running smack into a nurse. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Lev asked quietly from his place at right of the table. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe he didn’t notice me, or maybe he did and was quietly relieved to see one of his responsibilities disappear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Samsa turned around in his chair in their direction and observed them quietly for a while. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took both of his hands in hers, and began quietly to pray. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed quickly and opened the old screen as quietly as he could, put Mouse out first, then handed me through, and followed quickly. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Without looking for thanks or praise, he quietly added his earnings to the pig, which we named Oz. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We opened the gate and went quietly in among the little headstones and metal medallions, all in rows. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

While they ate, the men were subdued, talking quietly, all played out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times, Ben forgot how handsome his godfather was, how quietly distinguished and impressively put together. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around us, groups of five to ten people sit together and quietly consume just enough food to live for another day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tsukiko catches Marco staring, and though he does not inquire about it, she says quietly, “It is part of who I was, who I am, and who I will be.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Billy’s father had come to see him again, and they were talking quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I look over at Patrice, who is walking quietly next to me, her eyebrows furrowed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The right to carry a wand,” said the goblin quietly, “has long been contested between wizards and goblins.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I left quietly and hurried to my dorm. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he’ll know soon, if he doesn’t already, that mine’s broken beyond repair,” said Harry quietly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the coaches saw his name on the failure report, they quietly snickered. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eberechi’s aunty had a white scarf tied around her head and a soiled wrapper around her chest and she spoke so quietly that Richard had to ask her to repeat herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had let herself go With it—swimming quietly, floating—till the boat arrived at last.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Kaitlin was lying across two chemistry tables that had been pushed together, and a boy Cas didn’t know was quietly talking to her while checking her pulse. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He stood quickly and quietly, wiping his palms against the front of his khaki pants. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Taylor and her companions left the Street, she sang quietly to herself, “My Country Tis of Thee,” like a frightened child easing past a graveyard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I have no idea how people with memory-wipe are supposed to walk or talk, so I sit quietly, holding my arms stiffly at my sides. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Joe took off his shoes, rolled up his pants, and waded quietly into the shallow riffles upstream from the pool. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A tabloid magazine played quietly through the TV. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I did to make you act so mean lately,” she said quietly, “but get over it, for everyone’s sake.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped out the window as quietly as possible and, clutching the bottom of the window frame, slid down the cold surface of the trailer’s metal siding. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, she took a deep breath and protested quietly, “But I know she’s bright. I can see it in her eyes.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I almost didn’t make it out of that one alive,” he said quietly. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

We were long past worrying about him—we had too much confidence in him for that—but we were never past accepting his most perilous moments quietly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Martin was very quietly sitting in the chair, and a tear ran down his cheek.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they are, feeding peacefully in a tree or resting quietly on the ground, grooming one another. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie switched off their own light and quietly closed the door. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mann’s hands are folded in her lap, and she quietly waits for a response, the tranquil painting of the mountains behind her seemingly waiting, too. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She quietly introduced me to the stocky, short woman with beautiful black hair sitting on the other side of her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of my bed and ran quietly to my window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is a small woman with power in her bearing, and one of the rare Dauntless who goes about things quietly and without ceremony. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Seconds ago, that candle had been quietly flickering in its gilded candelabra; now only the tiny flames flickering on the ground remained. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So I said, as quietly as I could:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

‘A healthy lot, really. Let’s just slip in quietly and see whether we can find one or two of the Owsla captains underground. We don’t want a lot of fuss.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my father just quietly filled out the registration card. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our seats were three rows from the front, and I scanned the audience, only noticing a few familiar faces, the Queen of Neat theme song playing quietly in the background. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

One thing I’ve learned: people love a camera, and when I’m filming, they see it, not me, so whenever I need to, I can quietly disappear behind my trusty shield. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“She means it doesn’t come off, Dana,” he said quietly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose he is asleep?” said Ron quietly as the witch slid the compartment door closed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Lyseni took the table nearest to the fire and spoke quietly over cups of black tar rum, keeping their voices low so no one could overhear. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I see no need for locking doors,” he said quietly. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He redoubled his caution and walked even more quietly, being careful not to give himself away by stepping on any branches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome; that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

On the way back to my room, while Buzz was still on her laptop, I quietly rooted though her purse and grabbed her checkbook. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked quietly; some of them had flown high up to spy, and one had seen a balloon over the sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a hundred years, people have been coming together in this dark, I thought, breathing quietly and evenly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A number of his colleagues quietly waited for the day when he would fall flat on his face by botching something important. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I dust quietly around him, and before I leave, he says, “How’s my favorite daughter?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, all eyes were on Jinx, who sat quietly on a stool behind the bar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We try to laugh quietly which makes it even funnier. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gram sat quietly, with her hands folded on her lap. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

But she sat quietly, balancing her handbag on her knees. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nearly the entire Negro population of Bumblebee stood in the street, quietly waiting while the three men voted. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“This is a witch hunt,” she muttered quietly, looking out the window. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, you lot can go,” I said quietly. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to her, Grace sniffled quietly, and Maya held her hand tighter. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Rising, I collected Sumac and headed quietly out of the wasi to go and see my teacher. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

So I ran back to the house, and very quietly got some wilted lettuce and an apple. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

On the ride home I cried in the back of the car, but quietly so the men wouldn’t hear me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You know the potting sheds?” she said quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Filch said quietly at the foot of the stairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Bruised and exhausted though he was, he was quietly pleased with himself. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Kate said quietly, “I’m trying to hold on, Mother. I didn’t know anyone could be so good. I’m afraid if I say anything too quickly or come too close to you, I’ll break to pieces.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bailey asks quietly, when the table has fallen into separate conversations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then he delivered an opening prayer, giving thanks to God for the gathering as the crowd stood quietly in head-lowered reverence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled himself to a crouched-over, standing position, moaning quietly, and shuffled in the water to the rear hatch, scootching around the mainsail which, hanging down, still filled the opening. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything else the whole way up Main Street, and when Justin stops in front of my house to let me out, I say good-bye and close the car door quietly. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The horse moved quietly out of the inn yard. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruby,” Clancy said quietly, with all of the familiarity of the kid I had thought was my friend. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the Elephant walked quietly to the river, filled her trunk with water, and came back to attend to Uncle Andrew. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

She just stood quietly in front of the machine that the overseer had led her to and pretended she could hear what he was saying to her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I cleared my throat quietly so I wouldn’t sound scared. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” he finally said, quietly, as if he’d worked something out. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I just thought you might be interested,” I say quietly. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Twelve of the fire performers quietly enter the courtyard with small platforms that they set up along the perimeter like numbers on a clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We walked up to the boys sitting quietly on the verandah. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He says quietly, We will pay rent for now and try to save slowly for our own house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He lashed at Cathy’s legs with the buggy whip, and when she stood quietly staring at him with calm cold eyes he lost his temper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I can let you have some coffee,” he said quietly to Perilee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the dark, two pairs of hands gently exploring each other, roving quietly over knuckles, cuticles, fingertips, the delicate details. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then he went out of the back door, closing it quietly behind him, and stood looking out through the quick white vapour of his breath. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked the question so quietly, I knew he felt ashamed to be asking it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As she rummaged in a box by the wall, Kino’s voice said quietly, “Apolonia, do not cry out. We are not hurt.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee said quietly, “So young to be so erudite.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heads toward the living room, where we are, but starts quietly backing away as soon as she spots Grandma Rose. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hear Mom say quietly, “She has this wacky idea to build a house out there.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“When he knew what he had become,” Edward said quietly, “he rebelled against it. He tried to destroy himself. But that’s not easily done.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, she said quietly, “Yes, your father, too.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t deny it,” he said very quietly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad sat together on the smaller sofa, talking together quietly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Wheeze,” she said quietly, looking first at the wall and then at me, “have you gone crazy?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do they often condemn people to death?” she asked quietly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Tobias says to him—very quietly--“We won’t be in a safe house forever, and this wasn’t very smart of you.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

We were instructed to wait quietly until the others arrived. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I asked quietly when the others had stepped down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wives behind the sawhorses dropped their heads and prayed quietly. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You needn’t tie me; I shall go quietly!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A friend said, “He died as he had lived, quietly and with a calm dignity.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Soon he was resting quietly on the couch and said he felt a little better. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knocks quietly at the only door and waits, eyes even brighter than before. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

So I am the one who quietly takes stock, I suppose. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Play quietly,” said Mrs. Bramble, “and if the manager appears, you’d better go out to our cottage. Or perhaps you could show Brad around. He might like to see the kitchen.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You were right,” Tobias says quietly, balancing on the balls of his feet. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hi, love,” he hears Henry say quietly, privately, right into the hair above his ear, and Alex’s breath forgets how to do anything but laugh helplessly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Being swallowed by a strange animal had taught the aunt not to waste her time shouting; now, all that she wanted to do was to sit quietly in the sun. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you a story,” she said quietly, ignoring the fact that they were both weeping, Shifre loudly and Esther with short little gasps. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry leaned forward and spoke quietly, so that only Ginny and Ron could hear him. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

As my friends and I ate and gossiped, she often stood by quietly, engaged in some household chore, not hiding the fact that she was taking in every word. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Cook speaks quietly, as if she’s afraid of her own words. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Annie quietly gathered her things and placed them in her briefcase. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here is the explanation of the victim’s inertia,” he said quietly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for now he simply wanted to let her know what was on his mind, and he did so quietly, when no one else was around. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon, tired of putting out light, had become a bat, which was all very well for him; he fluttered around squeaking quietly while Lyra sat and chewed a fingernail. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Time enough for this later, my princess," he said quietly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I came up behind it and walked, slowly and quietly, listening, around to the front. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Were they your kin?" he asked her quietly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t expected an answer so I was surprised when he spoke quietly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she said quietly, “my husband has a very hard head. He’s stubborn and thick-skulled.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everyone spoke so quietly I could barely hear them and almost no one talked to me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, quietly, he went back down the hall. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“If it has come to this, that you are conscripting somebody my age, then Biafra has died,” the elderly man said quietly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat quietly for a few moments, looking out at all the hustle-bustle starting to whip up across the Glade. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“When Mom thinks something is a good idea, there’s no escape. It’s best to go along quietly.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see if they’ve stopped staring when I notice a dark man in the back crying quietly into a cloth handkerchief. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He hugged her back, then asked quietly, “Is I still a slave, Amari?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sneak out quietly, and Henry touches Alex’s shoulder at the gate near where his SUV waits, presses his palm into the wool of his coat and the knot of muscle. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

No wonder any household item we carelessly left on our porch quietly found a new home in the night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they forget about me and fall into bickering, I quietly review what data I can see about each of them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Quentin looked at the stones quietly, thinking Not beloved wife of. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky suddenly darkened further, and, as I looked over my shoulder to glare at the offending cloud, I realized with a shock that two men were walking quietly twenty feet behind me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

At night, they quietly sat together at the table with the goldfish. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He waited quietly, knowing that it was vital that he should not upset her. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said quietly: “You’re not going to make any effort to catch them for me?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Isannah,’ she said quietly, ‘you call Grandpa and the boys in to supper. Cilia, run down cellar and fetch cold ale.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit very quietly and very still and am careful how I breathe. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once he'd reached the top, Hornet quietly gathered up the rope and helped him to lower himself into the garden. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You knew about their quarrel?” he asked quietly, nonchalantly. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gone inside quietly, had stopped in the kitchen doorway when I saw her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"Real life is real hard," I say quietly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Guidance counselors and teachers would quietly pull a student aside and say that William and Mary, for example, did not accept blacks, so there was no need for you to apply. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I normally stood by the stove quietly while the food cooked. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Small breakdown," the father murmured quietly so Dr. Tandlemann wouldn't hear him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The truck hums and bumps along as we all quietly take in the scenery. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We cross the street and walk along quietly for a few minutes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She hardly remembers her mother,” said Mo quietly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, ma’am,” said Mary Poppins quietly; and smiling to the Twins, Mrs. Banks went out and closed the door. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

So apparently you spoke to spiders quickly and quietly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knocked on his office door quietly, as if I hoped he wouldn’t answer, and soon was sitting silently across from him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

At the firm, she worked quietly, trying to be friendly but invisible, just like at Warren High School, where she tried not to fall asleep conspicuously. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I remember taking my eyes off the twisting road to glance at him, but he was just sitting there quietly, gazing straight ahead into the night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said quietly: ‘Up to the last moment—up to the eleventh hour, we will beg the Governor’s permission for the ships’ return to London with their cargo. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flipped through the pages and smiled as she quietly read. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go get Papa at the clinic,” he said quietly, pulling me away. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The thin rivulet of a tear fell quietly down her pale cheekbone, disappearing into the darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Working on a navy contract quietly and virtually single-handedly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lawrence’s former graduate student Philip Abelson had perfected a way of enriching uranium by thermal diffusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“No, baashe said quietly, without meeting my gaze, “I was never assaulted.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t,” said Ben quietly, shaking his head. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We breathed as quietly as we could and watched the men through the muddy water that covered our eyes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was most important that these boats be constantly but quietly in motion, to provide diversion for the eye, peace for the ear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Very quietly I stand next to her bed and watch her breathe. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sang the ancient tune quietly to myself, I realized it was the refrain Mamá had sung to us to soothe our nerves on dark, rainy nights when we were very young. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Each time the name is uttered, he quietly winces. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After finally getting the milk jug down into the bag, he tied the bright yellow plastic strings and quietly opened the back door. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then leaving it they turned left and took quietly to the fields again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Our mother quietly opened the door and stood aside to allow us to go in ahead of her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When the door quietly opens, his eyes widen in alarm, then become confused. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do,” she said quietly. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Park sat quietly in the blue easy chair. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He wiped his eyes and spoke very quietly, as if awed by his own wisdom. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did you say?” he said more quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

After quietly retrieving it, they unrolled the yarn, removed the agent messages hidden inside, and took them to Washington’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro nodded and sat quietly staring into the fire for a long time, listening to the music of the strings until his eyes grew heavy and his shoulders began to droop. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tore through the lessons, quietly keeping tabs on where I stood among my peers as we charted our progress from long division to pre-algebra, from writing single paragraphs to turning in full research papers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Blake turned around and saw an American officer, spreading word quietly to the other American military men in the church sanctuary. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, right. You wish I were more like Seema didi. Quietly get married to someone you choose, quietly have a baby, accept my path without a fight. Right? You’d love that.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom asked quietly, “What if Erik has no future in football?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw their weapons come flying straight at me, saw them touch my fur and drop quietly in the grass. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a good one,” I said quietly with admiration, finally looking up from my pad. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They chatted quietly about the schools in the suburbs, how coats were marked down Columbus Day, whether the United States was doing the right thing in Korea. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of us sat quietly in the back of the room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Our sled has thudded quietly into a snowbank, and our friends are slapping us now, saying “Cool” and “You could have died.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They listened quietly to the last few speakers. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I touched Dad’s hand quietly with my own. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hidden in the grass and underbrush, they breathed quietly and opened their ears to catch the lower tones of the men’s voices. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later the sky was full of flakes falling quietly through the air. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quietly left the kitchen and went back to the living room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He knocked, waited a moment, and then spoke quietly to Erik through the door. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says this quietly so that no one else can hear. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She walked quietly and slowly so as not to disturb it, but the bird took no more notice of her than if she’d been a twig on the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what I think, Potter?” said Snape, very quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Next to her, Ma sits on the mat, holding Geak, who sleeps quietly in her arms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them bid Moss goodbye and reminded him of their commitment to the walkout, while others just quietly departed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get out of here,” Jack said to me quietly, and he pulled me by my sweatshirt sleeve and started walking away from them. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was important to her, and I sat quietly as one sits before a bird that feeds from your palm. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the cool wooden floor outside Mama’s bedroom, a bowl of black currants resting quietly in my lap. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then Emma’s hands went to her mouth and she said quietly, “Oh, hell. He’s right.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They may not have wanted you there then,” says Will quietly, “but they seem to like you now.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Beowulf lived quietly, doing country things—he took to the keeping of bees, and most days would see him tending his tawny hives in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lily joined us and said quietly that she knew Nathan hadn’t gone home. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Groups of vets stood in clusters or sat in circles on the grass, talking quietly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She just nods quietly at me and tells me to relax. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I quietly got up and went in the shed to bathe in the aluminum tub. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“How much do I owe you?” he asked quietly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then, moving quietly, quickly, they slipped inside Ben’s cabin, to look at the new baby. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Lyra heard the woman’s harsh tone, her face crumpled, her dæmon burrowed his face into her neck, and she began to cry quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so,” said Dumbledore quietly, peering behind an overstuffed armchair lying on its side. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He said it quietly enough that Thomas didn’t think anyone else heard, but it sounded ominous. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I quietly pray to Pa to chase them away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I edged around the noisy floorboard in the middle of the room and opened my door as quietly as I could, but it creaked loudly in the cold. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Lily looked down and said quietly, “I was looking for something.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“That’s a very good question,” he muttered, so quietly that I wondered if he was talking to himself. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Turner,” his mother said quietly, “go upstairs and change into something you can hit a baseball in. And I’ll stop by Mrs. Cobb’s this afternoon.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’d tried always to bring the most calm and open part of myself to these meetings, to lend my own strength by being caring and present, sitting quietly on the riverbed of other people’s pain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As quietly as possible, so as not to startle it, we rise, crowd around Janine, squeezing her, patting her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they quietly placed mail orders to receive the paper in the privacy of their own homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The implications of what Gale is suggesting settle quietly around the room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It is annoying, yet somehow quietly satisfying to think of them in the cold ground. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were gliding quietly toward the upper floors of the castle.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Matilda and her brother were sitting quietly on the sofa waiting for their mother to bring in the TV dinners on a tray. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He let himself out of the apartment quietly, so quietly that he surprised two drug addicts fumbling in the hall toilet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put her finger to her lips and shook her head, and backed out of the stable as quietly as she had entered it. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think the worst has happened,” he says quietly. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, with his index finger, he grazes his father’s mustache, an eyebrow, a bit of the hair on his head, those parts of him, he knows, that are still quietly living. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The whole town, practically, had raised the money, quietly and not so quietly, through bake sales and donations and gifts, and so when they presented the trip to Will’s mom, what could she say? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At first, I didn’t even realize what she was singing, she was singing so quietly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Put that knife down and come quietly. You’ll only be gone for three months.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first he did not speak at all in the great tea house but he bought his tea quietly and drank it and looked about him with wonder. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Why did he so quietly submit to the concealment Mr. Rochester enforced? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined old Ikwa once again sitting on a branch next to me, quietly watching the sun set. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Adam was giggling and saying, “Dude, dude,” quietly, the way you do when you have a secret. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The dimness of the night hid us from the guests, and we sat quietly inside our vehicle observing everything from a dark, safe distance. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When she finished she was still for a few minutes and then said quietly, “I think that is all.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the rows of cribs with most of the little occupants sound asleep, and those who were wakeful staring quietly at the ceiling. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She glanced over at Pearl, who stood quietly in the empty living room of the apartment, hands clasped in front of her, and the girl smiled shyly. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

George closed the door quietly and then turned, beaming, to look at Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Bayona had had the girl’s sputum cultured and sent everything to the Massachusetts State Lab, quietly bypassing the Peruvian national lab in order to protect his friend from scrutiny. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“We know how to deal with big people,” Tialys replied, not very helpfully, and went to talk quietly to the Lady. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I approached quietly and looked over his shoulder. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There are off-hour trips to silent museums, where the boy tries and fails to walk through galleries as quietly as his instructor does, cringing when each footfall echoes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She told us how one person sucked out the ink from her skin because the doctor who gave her the tattoo quietly told her to. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Father and I sat quietly the whole way, listening to Mama chatter on about anything she could think of. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She slid the key in as quietly as she could and turned it. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Call me when you get there," his dad said quietly. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lasher quietly explained to my mother that all the tests I had taken indicated that I was quite smart, but that I was going to throw it all away because of my behavior. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They walked slowly and quietly, aware that sounds travel in both directions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She looked thoughtful as she quietly sipped her coffee. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Blinking his eyes, he takes Ma into his arms with Pa standing quietly beside them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the day goes on, the name Pamela bubbles out of every conversation, spoken quietly, but so often that it’s a growing echo in the school. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Stay nearby,” he told Volta quietly, which is exactly what Volta had intended to do. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“This must be hard for you,” she said quietly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“He was trying to keep us there while his wife went for the police,” said Alice quietly, watching him over Malcolm’s shoulder as he paddled them down to the main stream. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Were running out of time,” he said quietly. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could fix this for you, Melody,” Dad said quietly as he headed out of my room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Outside the clearing, Julia said, it was better to go quietly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking of maybe a collage-style map instead,” I say quietly. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

About then, too, influenced by having heard Bimbi often explain word derivations, I quietly started another correspondence course—in Latin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit quietly, my heart aching for Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Clothes, food, bedding, shoes—everything a family could need—was thoughtfully and quietly left for them on Stella’s porch or at the doorstep of what was once her grandma’s house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He got up and crept quietly away from the fireside towards the outer door. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I was in Mrs. Bob’s class when my mom and grandma came to get me,” she continued quietly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Constance’s eyelids were fluttering, and still she murmured, so quietly it was difficult to hear her, “No...no...no...” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel climbed the stairs as quietly as she could, in case her mother had a customer. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just said, haven’t I? Maybe he doesn’t care if I’m qualified. Maybe the job he wants me to do isn’t something that you need to be qualified for,” said Malfoy quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Cranking the wheel the other way, she started pedaling forward, and the boat quietly slid out of the boathouse. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

With my dollars bills in hand and Madrina’s skirt still around my waist, I race up the stairs, past my apartment, and quietly slip up to the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I pretend to be asleep, as my heart starts kicking quietly against my ribs. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Your father was my best friend,” Rajar added quietly, “a long time ago.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Carson quietly flips through the pages of some kind of alternative-healing magazine. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Louisa laughed and teased and goaded like a goblin; and what was worse, she told the other children, and incited them to "baa" quietly whenever Tristran walked past. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to clean the bathtub now,” he said very quietly. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I know anything about tears?” he says quietly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I heard the German army isn't doing well in Stalingrad," I say, quietly so the neighbors won't hear, my contribution to this awkward dialogue. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And, quietly: “You better go inside now. I don’t want you to catch your death of a cold.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They spent the long afternoons sunbathing together, stretched out side by side on top of their bunker, or playing backgammon in the shade of a giant palm tree, or just sitting quietly. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a nervous reader and reads too quietly, mumbling into her neck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She sat very quietly, watching the houses and gardens of the city that was hers and not hers. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quietly closed the door and dashed to the file cabinet and pulled open the drawer. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He doused his headlights and quietly coasted to a stop. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

From there he could see the bridge and most of the garden, and he watched as Lord Asriel leaned towards the shutter and spoke quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Pretty much. I miss her,” I say quietly, to myself mostly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He folded his hands on the tabletop and sat quietly for a moment. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thinking we were all asleep, Mama quietly slipped out of bed and lit the kerosene lamp. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I would still like to hear it,” Kaisa said quietly, and the expression on her face was indistinct in the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you drunk enough, eh?” she asked him quietly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She revealed her fear of dark skin to me only in adulthood when, regarding her own three children, she quietly admitted relief that they were all light. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three boys stood quietly and watched the skillet smoke through the glass. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Right. I know. And she liked you. You thought she was quietly discussing precalc, when she was clearly talking about having hot sex with you. Which is why you need me.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Darma stands while my mom sits in a rocking chair, quietly looking out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

These birds remained quietly out of sight when there were no warriors about to defend them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“In front of you,” she adds quietly, nudging him toward the bathroom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Inside I was quietly starting to panic, but I smiled and kept trying my gentlemanly best to be a good date, holding the door for her, telling her how beautiful she was. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was not unpleasant or frightening; it was merely quietly insistent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bastian says, “Up,” more quietly this time, and Frederick gets to a knee. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She followed Mama’s lead around cages of white pygmy elephants, chimpanzees, a pair of giraffes grazing quietly in their paddock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was silent for a moment; then he went on quietly, “I remember when I lost my wife. Work helped.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw went quietly outside, down the drive and then left, up the lane. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

It was her fencing hand, so although she came back after the surgery, she wasn’t quite the same fencer, and any hope of her making the team instead of me was quietly put to rest. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“And took the rubbish out,” his mum said quietly, looking at how neat he’d left the kitchen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The floor seemed to swerve up, colors flashed before her eyes and she put her head down on the ink-damp paper and wept quietly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least twice a week Tidbit stole quietly through the darkness to fetch Amari to come to the bedroom of Clay Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My only option was to finish as quietly and as slowly as I could, so that’s what I decided to do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their eyes closed gently as if they had gone quietly to sleep; they stood very still. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scratched his head, and for a moment had a passing wish that Mr. Frodo could have gone on living quietly at Bag End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“After Adiah fled into the jungle, he searched for her,” she said quietly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He just scoffs, and then we're at my locker, and Jane kind of pulls me by the elbow away from Tiny and says quietly, "You know, you can't say that stuff." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then he shut it quietly and sat down again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

As quietly as I could, I brought in my backpack and with the light of a small flashlight searched through it for my knife. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight shone through the window, and if anyone had looked into the Baudelaire orphans’ bedroom, they would have seen three children crying quietly all night long. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If you could speak quietly, our guest is asleep.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s stupid to ask you,” she says quietly, looking at her own reflection instead of me, “but could you just, like, not tell anyone about this?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps something more private?” he insisted quietly to the host. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Why is it,” he said quietly, “that quite often even the things which are correct just don’t seem to be right?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The question, asked quietly, rang out like a shot and created a silence in the room that was awkward and menacing. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After a while the two girls went quietly upstairs again. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was for our motorcade to avoid the crowd and drive around to the back of City Hall, where I would quietly enter the building. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved quietly through the papyrus to sneak back into the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I understand now that even a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it's a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When she opened it, Papa was standing there quietly, his hat in his hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Crouch is going to let him out,” Moody breathed quietly to Dumbledore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We followed her out of the house and got quietly in the car. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Avoiding the gigantic coils, he walked quickly and quietly over to where the sword hung from the tree roots on the cave wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We don’t serve brunch,” Heidi says, quietly, and gives me a hug, a real one. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Afi, still chained next to her, quietly began to hum an old Ewe song. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course,” said Slughorn quietly, still dabbing at his white face. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I feel the lungs that have been doing their work quietly inside the hospital. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

For safety’s sake I kept away from the road, skirting behind the cottages, moving quietly along the back lanes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Often the hallways were empty, and Conrad and I could run back and forth enjoying ourselves before we went into the library to sit quietly at a table and spend hours looking at books. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I made sure Harry was treated with respect,” I said quietly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You see?” said Dumbledore quietly, holding his wand a little higher. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

While a few of the center staff and the DJ started to break down their equipment, Rose and me quietly went to work on our masterpieces. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Colin raised the slim window facing the front yard as quietly as he could, and then motioned to the screen. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

When at last he lay sleeping quietly, she summoned all her courage and lit the lamp. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she moves quietly through the hallways, and I suspect has completely lost her edge on the soccer field. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I consider her to be a very able headmistress — and an excellent dancer,” said Dumbledore quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When she did finally lift her head, it was to quietly ask, “Who?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jet sat quietly looking out the window. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I start to cry, but quietly, in the way I’ve learned to cry since the accident. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her boss had turned down her request, but she had managed to quietly trade shifts with a co-worker. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He lay quietly a few moments, waiting for his mother to go back to sleep, and then he slipped his clothes on, and crept out in his bare feet. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Aaa ” the captain started all over again, quietly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was required to wear a ridiculous uniform and creep around the house as quietly as a mouse, lest she disturb the judge in his seemingly endless and sacrosanct deliberations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You realize,” Phil Resch said quietly, “what this would do. If we included androids in our range of empathic identification, as we do animals.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He lay quietly in his nest with his eyes closed, surrounded by chips of broken shell. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on, just forget him!” she said quietly, She slowly stretched out her hand and stroked Prosper's face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought she could hear the pages whispering very quietly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My dad pauses, then quietly shuts the door. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"Y'Grace," he said quietly, "the boys caught a groom and two maidservants trying to sneak out a postern with three of the king's horses." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He could quietly retire, and that would be the end of it. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys asked quietly as the others talked more about their files. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If Sass had let me creep quietly about my tasks, I would have been content. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Bailey says quietly, willing the uncomfortable silence to return. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t say it quietly enough, though, and María overhears him. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He replayed it in his head, trying to convince himself that he’d said it so quietly, under his breath, that maybe his dad hadn’t heard. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Thank the Lord,” Momma said quietly, but with a force that surprised me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

James turns his speakers on quietly, but I can hear that he’s playing the Strokes, and I nod in appreciation of his efforts. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mum found this stack of order forms when she was cleaning Fred and George’s room,” said Ron quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly for a while before he started talking. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“So you really are the Thief Lord,” the stranger said quietly. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, her clothes, they were all heavy with the cold water, but she stood quietly, calm and regal as a mermaid queen who had just arrived out of the sea. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conservative Durham Morning Herald had only praise for the mob, which, according to the paper, “performed its task quietly and in a well organized manner.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

People quietly shuffle through the dust back to their Mercury Homes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“His people do not know,” she said quietly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He died quietly in his sleep a few days after they visited us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad is a script adviser,” Bridget said quietly. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Mary Malone. I’ve never been woken so quietly. Am I awake?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I quietly bring up Ren’s hacked profile, and his information lights up in transparent text around him. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pita said quietly, sweetly, reaching the bed and touching my shoulder. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hermione pushed it open as quietly as possible and they edged through it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Since then, this science has developed in more or less parallel with biology, but more quietly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tiptoed in and sat down very quietly, so they wouldn’t disturb anyone. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t put his hand out yet, because as he watched, a whale five times as long as the dory surfaced, and rode quietly alongside him in the smooth swells. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he said quietly, leaning forward and putting a hand on the Daily Prophet, which she had just removed from a post owl, to stop her from opening it and vanishing behind it. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She awoke to find the conductor leaning over them saying quietly, “Sumimasen.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bloom stood quietly in the warm summer sunshine, absorbed by the two trucks parked beneath the water tank. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If that is your choice, Longbottom, we revert to the original plan. On your head,” he said quietly, “be it.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We sat like that for hours, listening to the gunshots and the screams in the street, my younger cousins huddled next to their mothers, weeping on and off quietly. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I just concentrated on being invisible, lowering myself quietly into a chair, holding my breath. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Steady in the ranks there,” said the hare quietly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She idled through the roads quietly, trying to lay out a map in her mind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When the truck comes in the darkness, we quietly climb in the back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That might be a good idea,” she says quietly. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

So we quietly plant our hopes out here in the jungle, just a few kilometers from the Angolan border, at the end of an awful road where Mobutu’s spies won’t often risk their fancy cars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just sit there quietly and watch the games. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gives in to the fact of it, being quietly adored. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We were arguing quietly, or at least I was. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I said, “No, Frightful, if they are after me there won’t be a siren. They’ll just slip up on me quietly.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was going in that direction,” murmured Harry as quietly as possible, so that the humming Hagrid would not hear them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

So, moving quietly, she crept to the back of the cage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom was dark and she whispered quietly, as if she might wake up her sleeping stuffed animals, each one from another time in her life, when things were less confusing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

David, Sammy, and I buried the bird and headed quietly back to camp to eat rabbit. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“After five days of mindless training,” she replied quietly, all too aware that very few people were speaking in the hall, “I’m glad for a bit of excitement.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bears—animals, whatever they were—drank for perhaps twenty minutes more, then quietly departed the way they had come. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I can manage without it, you know,” I said quietly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly senior monitors appeared at the end of every third row, and we quietly and slowly made our way toward the exit. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

High on her stub, the young fed, Frightful pulled one foot up into her feathers and sat quietly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Some older ones—especially those who’d started their training—would sigh quietly and leave the room when this sort of talk began, but for a long time we didn’t even notice this happening. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I took my shoes off, the Angel family rule, and padded quietly down the hall. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Professor?” he said quietly, after a couple of minutes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, she sat quietly, playing with sugar packets until her mother made her stop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Nessie slips out of the room as quietly as she appeared, and from the look on her face I know that the story of Katherine Deveraux will be on every drovers lips by nightfall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Free Lunch Program,” I say as quickly and quietly as possible. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s here,” she says quietly, looking up at Ashoke with a weak smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful in her church and Drum in his tupelo sat quietly through screaming gusts and dead calms. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Antoine said quietly, “It’s time to start telling the truth, little brother. Do you understand what I’m saying?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Susan spoke quietly, full of the dulled grief of mourning a person she had never known. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Milo looked up, very surprised, and noticed for the first time, in the half-light of the room, a pleasant-looking old lady quietly knitting and rocking. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the end Hooper had got up and walked back quietly to his own bedroom, stiff with cold. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Ma placed the goldfish bowl on the table and quietly began making dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their heads were close together and they were talking quietly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it would do any harm if I quietly let it be known down in Kerrith and in the county that a London doctor has supplied us with a motive,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “What is this?” but he said it very quietly and I didn’t realize that he was angry because he wasn’t shouting. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My fingers are a wreck; I shred them quietly, out of sight beneath the tabletop, as I do in times of stress; an old bad habit I cannot seem to break. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chronicler quietly copied to where Kvothe’s finger pinned the paper to the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She noticed that just inside the entrance an electric fan whirred quietly, aiming inward, pulling fresh air into the room from somewhere out in the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish you would,” he said quietly, “I think you need it,” and I took three sips of it to please him. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I am concentrating so hard that at first I do not notice someone else who has been walking quietly in the forest. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Wes stood quietly, his face set, as the foreman read out ten other charges, all with the same verdict. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Sweetheart, have you talked to your friends?” she said quietly. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He is here,” she said quietly, but loud enough to be heard, pointing to the ground below her. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She looked at Ben and, seeing him fully occupied with Asta, said quietly, “I wish I knew when he’d stop changing and settle.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"That was an animal's voice," said the manager, remarkably quietly in comparison to the mother's cries. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he was supposed to be working quietly at home, but here he was, come in for an unexpected visit to his staffers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear that,” he said quietly, “I’ve only been in love once? It happened when I was eleven. And it’s still happening.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stood for a moment in deep thought; unable to think of anything to say to help Mr. Tuffett, she stole quietly out of his office. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They went as quietly as they could down the hall past several offices. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie slept too quietly, and on these mornings when he buttoned up his jacket and went out the door, he imagined she was watching him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The father spoke quietly as he glanced down at boy and dog. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben tried to push Mouse off as quietly as he could. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then for a moment, Lillian and her children sat quietly, stunned by the size and majesty of the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood together quietly, watching like people who must not feel. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We wait here quietly until we are dismissed,” said Mr. Lukas, winding his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tee wrapped an arm around her girlfriend’s shoulder and sniffled quietly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea what you’re getting into, my boy,” the man in the grey suit says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The men ran like cripples in their clumsy boots, as quietly as spiders. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth closed the outer vestibule door behind him so quietly that no one heard anything. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They plodded quietly through the dim afternoon light, heading two blocks north on University Avenue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded and stayed where he was, while the woman and the monkey moved forward as quietly as they could. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, at school I was quietly collecting bits of data, trying to sort out my place inside the teenage intelligentsia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It happened so quickly and quietly that there was no newspaper publicity. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Mother sat quietly, eyes focused, lips tight, her whole expression momentarily solid. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So Cope’s petition and his bones were quietly shelved. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What do we generally do with useless things, Basta?” asked Capricorn quietly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They let themselves into the O’Sullivan house, where Mel made herself a cup of tea and sat at the kitchen table, sipping quietly while they waited for the vet to arrive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Whatever s in that bag must really be important,” Diana said quietly as the boys circled the air conditioner, discussing their options. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wait a couple of minutes before I tiptoe across the small living room and quietly shut the door behind me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s not enough if you just sit there quietly and let them teach. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I put down my pen and sat quietly for a long moment. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Children were not something she talked about much, but she and William had been quietly dreaming of them for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They went quietly and quickly, the Corporal setting a steady pace. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We live to serve,” said Mama, quietly and firmly. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Esther looked longingly at the blue scarf, and hummed quietly to herself. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Napoleon produced no schemes of his own, but said quietly that Snowball’s would come to nothing, and seemed to be biding his time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“I am not sure that would be wise,” she says quietly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry you don’t feel well, sweetheart,” Mom says quietly. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She wanted to learn everything—to become as quietly competent as the tall girl. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Saying nothing, Ma quietly wipes her eyes with her red scarf. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly for a few minutes, listening to the snap of the fire and the music from the deck and the sounds coming from the bench couple, who were really going at it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You get the bread tonight,” a prisoner standing by him said quietly. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I want us all to get along,” she says quietly. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I spoke quietly and slowly, taking great care to get the message across. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We ran for a minute along that line of trees, and then Margo pulled on the back of my shirt, and said quietly, “Now the moat.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly and pondered the question as I glanced out the front window at the few soldiers standing at attention. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had slept near him, in order to assist him as quietly as possible to the bathroom when he needed to hurl chunks, for his sake and for my mom’s. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“Nu, Reuven,” he said quietly, “tell me, which one was not good?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She spoke as quietly as she could, feeling every eye in the crowded parlor turned their way. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

If he thinks I will just disappear, go quietly, he’s mistaken. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spoke quietly into the mouthpiece of the asylum pay phone in the main hall of the administration building. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Charlotte stood quietly over the fly, preparing to eat it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Elinor began snoring after only a few minutes, but hard as Meggie tried she couldn’t get to sleep, so she got up quietly and slipped outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I knew that Melissa and Katie were quietly tracking the negative news stories via BlackBerry, though they were careful not to share them with me, understanding it would only make things worse. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“We just found out. Your mom told us. He’s been calling her for regular updates, and he’s been, what, quietly supportive over there. I guess the dude is showing his love in his own way.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Luke grabbed his shoes and the heavy-duty garbage bags he’d kept stashed behind the couch, and checked on the boys one last time before he quietly stepped outside onto the walkway of their apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I say, and we sit there quietly for a while. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

‘You know that, or you guess well enough, Sméagol,’ he said, quietly and sternly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I laid there quietly, staring at the paint-chipped ceiling and thinking about stuff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Stella scooted closer to her mother, who very quietly slipped the purple bracelet onto Stella’s wrist. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I think you should let me go alone,” I said even more quietly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Stonecrop finally left, promising to send Dr. Pelham’s bill the next morning, the house breathed slowly and quietly. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Some of the dealers merely had the children bow quietly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the company of carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and painters at lunch, I would often sit quietly, observant. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened quietly, all the while sipping his tea. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although Stassen’s idea resembled one that Eisenhower was quietly beginning to favor, it inspired an extended row at the NSC meeting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She left him briefly a few times, and when she did, Pax quietly took her place beside Runt’s motionless form. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“But she’s probably carrying your English pilot’s license and National Registration card,” Paul pointed out quietly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Gently, he put her arms away and went into the bedroom alone, sobbing more quietly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night we saw three deer standing around it quietly, reaching toward the smell of salt. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any hope Turner had that they might slip in quietly was gone when he saw the score or more of lanterns down by the docks, and the crowd of people watching. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The face of the gym teacher showed both compassion and alarm as she quietly pointed to a group of women some distance away, jumping over the rear fence as they shouted obscenities at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me quietly that he was planning to write to three universities that day—Harvard, Berkeley, and Columbia—and apply for a fellowship in psychology. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I went quietly through the brush to the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle tells me that things take time, Mother,” Antain said quietly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I get up and stop myself from slamming it, and just shut it quietly. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I prayed earnestly to Tehlu and all his angels, asking for the draccus to die, just slide quietly asleep and pass on without turning around to see the city’s fires. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Five cars were parked in the yard when he arrived; eight men had gathered in a single group smoking and talking quietly—one man had a bottle. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Armpit waited a long moment, then quietly said, “Armpit.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“This one goes on my refrigerator door!” she says quietly. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a saloon in which to make deals and to talk quietly without interruption. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Amari asked quietly, touching her neck, which still held the scars from her own iron chains. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hop down from the chair and brace myself for a whole lot of hollering, but instead Ma quietly asks, “Where are the marshmallows?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No, I just love Mom, too,” he says quietly. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

With relieved expressions, Sticky, Kate, and Constance hurried quietly on down the corridor. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each was swearing quietly to his or her own God. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the squad car still on my mind, we slipped quietly into the hemlock forest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can’t even ask how long it has been there–whether it has just lately popped into being, like a good idea, or whether it has been there forever, quietly awaiting the right moment. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And then, quietly, I said, “I didn’t know you were a basketball player.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle Carlos rubbed his forehead and pushed the quadruple stroller quietly in the aisle. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Then he sighs quietly into my ear, ruffling my hair with his breath. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I went quietly to my room and lay upon the bed, brooding. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you need help now?” he asked quietly. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The two queens sat quietly by the stream. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly and quietly, I slipped into her bedroom. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nick sat quietly, but in his mind he shouted, Hurrah for mom, hurrah for mothers everywhere1. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as possible, he and Zero climbed up out of their holes and crept toward camp. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She quietly left the field house and sat outside for a few minutes in the parking lot in her car. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly I push open the door, walking as quietly as I can to a mat across the room from her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“I want you to come up to my office first, Harry,” he said quietly as they headed up the passageway. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I went quietly, circling around the mouth of the cave and came up to it from the side. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stableboys quietly and quickly led her horse away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I cried quietly in my pillow for a long, long time,” he said. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I am tempted to ask her quietly if there is anything wrong. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To clear his head so he could go back to the apartment, take Annie in his arms, and fall with her into the couch, laughing as quietly as they could. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would find him just sitting quietly on a limb next to the bole of a tree, all fluffed up and doing nothing. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose if I were older,” he said, quietly enough to be speaking to himself, “I would say that you were being ridiculous. That our students are adults, not squabbling, bickersome boys.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Neither moved as Johnny slipped quietly past them and entered the inner office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was looking at you,” she said quietly, her features grim. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Doctor Quinn stepped into the room, shutting the door quietly behind her. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma put on a Murder, She Wrote rerun after lunch, but she always dozed during those, and Irene and I had already seen it, so we quietly left her asleep in the recliner. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

He ate quietly in the kitchen while Bailey and I read separately and greedily our own Street and Smith pulp magazine. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not like white people,” she said quietly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s all he says, Miles slinks back and quietly messes around with his phone, as if we weren’t just having a conversation. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Snowflakes like bits and pieces of rainbows fall quietly on our heads. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He sat quietly in the classroom during recess, resting himself, while the others rushed outdoors and threw snowballs and wrestled in the snow. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My knives,” he said quietly, with a glance at Archer. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He heard his father ask Bill quietly over his head about “the service.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me she must have quietly gotten rid of Ben’s jacket, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The doctor went to speak quietly to the nurse. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hurley sarcastically parried Neylan’s questions about his associations with liberal organizations while Latimer quietly seethed at the injustice of a proceeding based on hearsay and FBI files that the accused was forbidden to see. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I drew back and walked around them quietly. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They glided quietly through the shallow water, holding their shoes in the air. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I want to go home,” he said, quietly. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I walk as quietly as I can out into the hallway. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was amazing,” Viola says quietly, cuz the song is already starting to disappear. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You are willing to sacrifice me for this,” she says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They sat there quietly, each trying to figure out how to broach their mutual affection. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the morning, before the people of the castle had got up, Lancelot heard the heavy door opening quietly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I step into the back of the truck as quietly as I can and crouch low as I pull the door closed behind me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Everyone waited quietly for her to say more. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found the bar, grabbed it with both hands, and wedged it quietly, tightly between the wall and the door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been sitting quietly, serenely, throughout the Ceremony. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. They went with soldiers,” the woman says quietly and looks away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the guests sat quietly and their eyes were inward. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noticing she was asleep, the dragon moved slowly and quietly, even when the water from Minli’s compass splashed and trickled down his nose. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was beneficent, this attention—“Come to Columbia, Malia!” people were shouting—but it was not especially useful for a girl who was trying quietly to imagine her own future. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I nodded quietly, thinking about the unhappiness of my brother in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bends down and this time in Bengali, calmly and quietly, asks Gogol to please answer when Mrs. Lapidus asks a question. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She chews quietly, but there's a crease in her brow. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And you be careful too, Sir Lancelot” he said quietly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” she says quietly, clearly out of breath. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Grampa looked sad when he heard that, and he said quietly, “So do I, son. So do I.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’d spent years quietly guarding my possessions on the bus ride to and from Whitney Young. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Toby got up, walked quietly to the bathroom. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She spoke quietly, stroking the nurse’s hair and wiping her tears. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But in the aftermath of a loss the field house emptied quietly and quickly, as if the place was cursed and it was somehow shameful to be there at all. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gun he set quietly on the table in front of him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped into the room quietly and sat so lightly on the bed, I barely felt her weight next to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

An old homeless man confronts me quietly with his beard, his missing teeth, and his poverty. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He lay quietly staring up at the ceiling, and I didn’t want to disturb him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was moving quietly now; for he thought that he could hear the sound of voices talking, still some way above. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Anishaa,” she breathed quietly, standing again, holding in her palm a tiny mound of tobacco. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“System entry in twenty-four weeks,” Viola says quietly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mo laughed quietly, and for a moment his face didn’t look quite so careworn. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They would look up at him from their seats and see he was serious and then quietly make certain to themselves that this was still the country they grew up in. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked quietly with Wilkins, who was so miserably nervous he had become virtually mute, and Wilkins’s wife, who wore a little pin that had a picture of their son Stan in his football jersey. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I could see he was close to it, but he somehow controlled himself; other times, he’d quietly shrug, or react like he hadn’t noticed a thing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had quietly worried about staying with Grandpa Sorenson ever since. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We waited quietly while she read, and our intake of breath when she at last lifted her head made her gag with laughter. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly under the bushes and waited. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly a wave of fatigue and nausea shuddered over me, and I went to the closet, got my coat, and left, closing the door quietly behind me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the opposition had still won, and unlike most African losers, Banda agreed to leave quietly and not start a war. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for taking care of them,” his dad said quietly. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The door closed, and the stretch limo drove off, quietly. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

JonPaul took my letter when I found him near his locker, but as I turned to walk away, he said quietly, “I gave your concert ticket to Greggie.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the other girls, one of whom has started crying quietly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was no wind, and this snow fell quietly; perched on a thousand fence posts, the meadowlarks waited for it to be over. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crept quietly into the kitchen, Genie finally daring to let his guard down, when he jumped a mile. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

By their soupy yellow glow she moved quietly across the landing to look toward her mother’s room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I try as carefully and as quietly as possible to scrape the rice kernels that cling like drowning victims to the sides of the bowl. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I quietly opened the front door and slipped the key back in its place. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I certainly do know that you have seen and done much since leaving us,” he said quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then she said quietly: “I haven’t seen that boy for a long time. Not since the Cottages.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But each month, new agents posing as businesspeople, diplomats, professors, and other unassuming characters quietly joined the fight against the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” he says, so quietly that I more lip-read it than hear it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I figured if I said it quietly enough, it might not be true. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When the meal was over the Faun told Shasta to stay quietly where he was. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“They are soldiers and people are cheering because the war is over,” he replies quietly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not look up at those standing quietly on the ledge or at the flute player playing for them, but paddled fast out into the morning sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed and swam away on her back for a few feet, then circled around, breaststroking quietly to him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working quietly on one side of the window, easing the paper off inch by inch, Nadia ended up with a piece that was almost as long as the room was tall. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blindfolded man, on the other hand, quietly allowed them to lower him into the hole dug for him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Much like tonight, he had felt too worked up to sleep, and despite the late hour he had slipped quietly out of bed and crept down to Mr. Benedict’s study. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The change in motion had woken Lyra, and she began to cry quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were careful of the snakes that came out hunting after sundown, and they sneaked up to the cave very quietly and waited for the bats to fly out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then if he still has not come out of the tent, I will go down while it is still light, very quietly, and see if I can see, without getting too close, how he is. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went back into the wood-panelled hall, and closed the front door behind him quietly. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

She stopped and quietly pressed her lips together. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I asked her to the dance,” he says, super quietly, “and she shot me down.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“I thought we talked about this,” he said quietly, almost inaudibly. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

While the soldier and Mr. 13-04 conversed quietly of small things—cheese eaten which had to be replaced—I surveyed the pieces. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But it was unnecessary, because however the scythe accomplished his task, it was done quietly. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

You will sit next to me and we can talk quietly under the music.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly, trying not to listen to my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow fell upon them softly, like sifted salt, and their footsteps quietly thumped as they walked. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, okay, so you go both ways,” I said quietly. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven nodded at Valley and Thorn and then quietly backtracked the few toadstools to Alaric’s desk. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rowan looked around to make sure they weren’t being observed, and spoke quietly. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Why did you just cut off contact?” he repeated quietly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” Bailey says quietly as they walk down another curving stairway in order to exit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I run quietly, breathless when I reach the stairs, and stand at one end of the glass room while Four stands at the other. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I understand what you were all trying to do,” he said quietly, taking their hands in turn. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In his bedroom, I showed Trevor everything I’d packed in my backpack for our adventure, and we went over our plan—quietly, so his mom wouldn’t hear us. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

One by one we pulled ourselves up and settled into cramped positions along the wagon’s rear porch, careful to do so quietly lest the driver hear us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Miss Peregrine slipped quietly from Bronwyn’s coat and hopped over to the pigeon, who was waddling around at the end of its lead, pecking at the ground. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They sit quietly, absorbing his story, and then flood him with questions. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as he could, he pulled himself up into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Looks like I just found my birthday present,” he said quietly. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At exactly four forty-five, sunset, the warship Michigan fired one of its cannon and continued to fire twenty times more as one thousand men quietly took up positions at each of the exposition’s flags. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“But he gets to stay, Papi,” I say quietly, and I realize that Darius will no longer be the boy across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I’m discharged from the hospital with instructions to move quietly and speak only when necessary. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Holmes—Harry—wanted the wedding done quickly and quietly, just him, Minnie, and a preacher. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt has his hand on his shoulder and is talking to him quietly. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I quietly slipped into the club and was thankful that it was mostly empty on this particular weekday evening. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We were to sit there quietly and think about what we’d done. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“As if we were the bloody ones ...” Aunt Eva leaned over and laid her hand quietly on his. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The infant slept on, and the man murmured to him quietly. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s fine,” he said quietly, as he passed Lupin, who had half risen from his chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Sticking to my cover story, I managed to get out, very quietly, “The boy.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It begins quietly, with the pounding of a heart. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the trial she had sat quietly beside her husband, her hands worrying a rumpled handkerchief. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, once Mrs. Caruthers had her lunch, Ophie returned the tray to the kitchen and then made her way quietly to the study, where the very busy ghost resided. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Rowan looked at what he wrote and carefully, quietly tore the page out, crumpled it, and tossed it into the flames of his bedroom fireplace. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Whimpering quietly but sincerely, I ran a hundred yards, day pack bouncing, glasses jiggling, then turned, heart stopped, and looked back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy settled nearby with coffee, sipping quietly from the cup, her alert eyes fixed on the tube. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lay quietly on the bed for a few more minutes, listening to the rain. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were talking quietly to each other, some re-tying their laces, others just staring down at their feet as they trammelled the mud. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas sat quietly in anticipation as Minho struggled to stand up, wincing with every move, his whole demeanor just screaming exhaustion. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sefia switched positions as quietly as she could, but her bow and quiver rubbed against the inside of the stump. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And the house stood very quietly around them all, dreaming its own dreams, or thinking perhaps. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to blend in quietly and not be noticed, like a bug on a riverbank. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It could be. If so, let’s wait quietly. The Brain is a robot. It’s got to follow the First Law. It can’t hurt a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

We talked best when either she or I called from the big house, from the kitchen phone, my father and his housekeeper sitting quietly together somewhere in the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She wants you to say it in French,” Tab told Bridge quietly over her shoulder. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Today we were just going to sit quietly and work on a practice section for the next test. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The moose quietly led the robot to the clearing in the trees where the new lodge would go. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The people, the thousands of people who had dangled so peacefully and quietly, now surrounded Roza and Finn, crouching like animals, needle teeth bared. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A boat motored quietly down the river, the people on it dark figures. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was completely dark, Harriet left the little island, moving slowly, quietly. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too bad you didn’t just take Max up on his offer, Four. Well, too bad for you, anyway,” says Eric quietly, as he clicks the bullet into its chamber. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And why was Papa drinking his tea quietly, as if Jaja had not just talked back to him? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The band shell was deserted, and the woman in pedal pushers quietly reeled in her line, and Dr. Mason’s sprinkler went round and round. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listen quietly from the back of the room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Come outside with me for a minute,” Luke said quietly. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

How quietly they always had to slip past the library door.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Two voices were speaking quietly at the other end of the room, and one was a man’s. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Then she would bustle around the engine,” Kaleriya said, “quietly tapping her wrenches, so as not to disturb the sleeping crew.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Keeping his eyes on Diana, he waved his hand behind him and quietly said, “Z, Frankie, I’ll get Tad. It’s time for the two of you to get out of here. Go now.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I eat my food quietly, still angry at the woman sitting across from me, but happy that at least I’m not sitting alone. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was expected and we waited quietly until she finished telling him how happy she was to see him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I thought he got away," I said quietly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The rest of the song came to me, and I sang it, quietly, almost whispering it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I quietly slipped out of the small door with my pack, keeping my head down. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He is speaking matter-of-factly but quietly, and I know this is out of respect for the dead, for Eleanor, who didn’t have very long. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He stood up quietly, and tiptoed into his aunt's room. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She set her note on the plank table and quietly closed the door. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Milkman lay quietly in the sunlight, his mind a blank, his lungs craving smoke. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to slip out the door as quietly as possible, but the stupid breeze pulled the door open hard, slamming it against the wall, making a loud bang. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He made his way to his room, quietly and with purpose. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It is for Reb Saunders to explain,” he told me quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

George climbed carefully up the ladder and waited quietly for her cue. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I begged her not to go with him,” he said quietly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She said quietly, “I don’t want to go to California.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put down my Swiss cheese sandwich and leaned across the table so I could speak as quietly as possible. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The baby continued to whimper quietly as though it had no right to cry out loud. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as possible, we climbed out of the shrubs and dashed for Miles’s truck and Tucker’s SUV. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It was sunset and we walked quietly toward the big red sun and the still sky that awaited darkness. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some eugenicists advocated euthanasia, and in mental hospitals, this was quietly carried out on scores of people through “lethal neglect” or outright murder. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

So instead he sat quietly at the breakfast table and ate his cereal. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped along, as quietly as possible, and it wasn’t long before it became clear that the hallway was a giant crescent. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

All that anticipation, and still it had sneaked up on me so simply, so quietly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In the end, he planted his feet and then spoke quietly, so only Nok could hear. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Six million of our people have been slaughtered,” he went on quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore was humming quietly, apparently quite at his ease, but the atmosphere was thicker than cold custard, and Harry did not dare look at the Dursleys as he said, “Professor — I’m ready now.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s over,” Mia told her quietly, and that was all that needed to be said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He said things suggesting that he might never be returned to his former Black Muslim post, and he now began to say things quietly critical of Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the Mancinis go out, we have to stay quietly in the closet and can’t move around or use the bathroom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Stealing quietly past her sleeping brothers and parents, she crept into Pearl’s room. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe wandered quietly on plush carpeting through a maze of corridors, leading to a full cocktail bar, then a cigar shop, then a writing room, and then a library with oak paneling and heavy beams. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“It is not for him,” Taran said quietly, “but for the sake of our quest.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I was so convinced of this that I decided to read to him, quietly, sitting by his bed so he would sense where I was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I hardly heard it, he said it so quietly. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“So I hid for a couple hours in the woods behind the hardware store,” he went on quietly, “and then I made my way home.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The African girl, her hands tied in front of her with a rope, was still sniffling quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus called quietly after me, “It would probably be better if we walked.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He curried and brushed two saddle horses in the stalls, talking quietly to them all the time; and he had hardly finished when the iron triangle started ringing at the ranch house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cried quietly as my head beat like the clapper of a bell. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Capricorn said there were trolls and giants, too," said Meggie quietly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They all moved quietly to the back of the small room. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought they sat quietly at home and that Johnny read the Bible out loud to them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to stay here as well,” she said so quietly that the others could hardly hear her. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We worked quietly, me filling the dough, Kazi frying them until they became golden brown. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, it was time for bed and Ophie’s questions were still a hot coal, burning quietly in her brain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Max, you don't have to do this," I say quietly. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"You just can't stand this, can you?" her mom said quietly, angrily, stepping into the room and shutting the door behind her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Apologizing, he whispered a Bible verse, and we sat quietly listening to Grandma India say the special prayer. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can barely understand him because he speaks so quietly and he’s looking at Kaori again. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He heard them talking quietly about his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chou and Kim breathe deeply, quietly, but I do not know if they are asleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snuffy crept quietly into some bushes and saw that they were naked in the big shallow pool, Joe passionately munching on Nancy’s plump flesh; chill autumn winds whistled down the river. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t speculate,” my mom said to him quietly, as if I couldn’t hear or something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She takes them without saying anything and we sit quietly apart and eat for a minute. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Will and the Gallivespians were a little way off, talking quietly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He spoke very quietly, almost a whisper, but with a fierceness that was unforgettable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then, closing her fingers around the flower, she slipped out of the conference room, shutting the door quietly behind her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It closed quietly after his mother bid him goodbye, and he jogged up to Esperanza, the chain-link fence screeching as she shut the gate. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Listen, my friends, my cousins,” Ruby continued quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the man dug for his wallet, the Owner, quietly and stealthily, slipped his right hand into his own pocket to find the small glass jar he always kept ready for a ripe opportunity. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And I spot Mama in the corner reading the Quran quietly with Salma Auntie and their other friends. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“People tend to overestimate my character,” I say quietly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“If you didn’t want to kiss me,” she says quietly. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I ask quietly, my voice full of shame because I hate what happened on Friday and I hate what Adam said to me today. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She stood up carefully so as not to awaken the children, and walked quietly through the short tunnel to the living room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Four other girls, too, quietly thank us—and admit how awful it had been for them, pre-makeover. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The crisp, female voice instructs us to lock the door to whatever room we are in from the inside, cover the windows, and sit quietly until the alarms no longer sound. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There are a full five seconds of silence before he answers, and when he does, it’s quietly, without inflection. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He just stood quietly over on one side of the living room, sipping, but you could see him casing the joint like crazy. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

All around us, the trees are brown, their green leaves, wilted in the heat of the white sky, hang quietly on the branches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Mom will put on her usual brave face, only to sit up through the night, quietly wiping tears away. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Dad talked with Robin quietly while June hovered nearby, worry all over her face. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the men chuckled—albeit quietly—and she kept her head held high as she reached over her shoulder for an arrow and nocked it into her bow. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He returned to his reading, and I left quietly. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled quietly at some sketches, others seemed to arrest her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Staying quietly in bed is harder after that. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there, on the road in front of her house, she saw a small stranger calling out quietly. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

She sits quietly on an uncomfortable chair beneath a line of framed posters advertising past productions, surrounded by boxes of tickets and receipts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So the next three days pass with Peeta and I going quietly from station to station. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

While American officials knew that Soviet troops had already landed on Cuba to help Castro's government, they had no idea that Khrushchev was quietly assembling a nuclear arsenal on the Caribbean island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I said quietly as I let it go. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My uncle sat quietly for a time, stroking his mustache with the little finger of his right hand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Badwa, weaving quietly between the trees, as serene and powerful as she had been the day before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some of those in the gallery had begun to slip quietly away, but the notables on the floor were trapped, unable to depart without the king's leave. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She spoke quietly, looking at him, though his eyes never left Celia. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was shaking, but she slowly, quietly crept into the bushes to hide. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been spreading quietly along the Kinshasa Highway, a transcontinental road that wanders across Africa from east to west and passes along the shores of Lake Victoria within sight of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My eyes are better than yours, Colonel,” Dr. Cajazeira said quietly. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

I snuggled my face into her neck while Mom continued to rock and hold me, still singing her quietly insistent song: No, you're not. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And if its members considered a plan too radical—that is, if it threatened their interests—they would dig in their heels and work quietly against it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She laughed quietly into their ears as she fed them apple bits. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone else in the little wood-paneled coffee shop was studying quietly or whispering into cell phones. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You tell him, son,” Lili urged the boy, who was quietly sitting in a corner, reading. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And so I have done for the past half-hour, contemplating the progress of the various figures seated quietly with their fishing rods at various points around the water. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It hasn’t been all that easy lately,” Poppet says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Cal crept quietly down the dark hall and edged into the room where he and his brother slept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It starts quietly enough, a whisper I can pass off as the wind, a scrape that sounds like the echo of my footsteps on the cracked ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The two Samanas, who were used to life in the forest, quickly and quietly found shelter and stayed there till morning. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She quietly spreads the cards out in a long line across the desk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We marched quietly toward the marsh, the evening air steamy, making sure we stayed on the path. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I saw the witch who had let him in quietly putting the chain back on the door-handles. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

He walked to the kitchen end of the great room and said quietly, “All right, let’s get started.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emma was not one to sit by quietly and not say much. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Lee’s shoulder, Taylor said quietly, insistently, “General, you are in range of the enemy batteries.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a plan to escape,” Lyra said quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I turned to Jimmy and said quietly but sternly, “Please don’t do this. Calm down. I’ll sort out this matter and see to it that you get your letter. Now, please leave.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ginger walked across the stage with enthusiasm and dignity and quietly nuzzled Stage-Annie's hand before sitting at her feet. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I know why she didn’t like talking about her childhood,” Dad says quietly. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Neither is a sprig. I think a book would make sense,” said Mini quietly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I will stay here,” he said quietly, “until I die.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next few hours passed quietly as the sun sped toward the horizon and darkness fell on the land outside the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As I crossed his shadow, thrown long over the garden by the moon, not yet risen high, he said quietly, without turning— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Wow,” she said quietly, “that’s even better than I hoped for.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to call your dad now,” he says quietly, then hangs up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He heard one of them say quietly, “Come on. I can hear the milkman down the road.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flashed a peace sign to English and he nodded, but only briefly, then he and Nam started talking quietly. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No one will steal lettuces soon,” said Fiver quietly. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We go under the right side of the house,” Justin said quietly. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He instructed York to pack his bags for a trip east to quietly sound out scientists and government officials about locating this new group at Livermore. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“You need to eat something,” Mark’s mom said quietly, squeezing his dad’s shoulder with one hand. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the rearview mirror I noticed with gratification that he was remonstrating quietly but firmly with Luther—threatening, I very much hoped, to take away his communication device. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Will you come quietly?” asked the Sergeant, “or must we anesthetize?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because we are godly people,” Frankie said quietly, leaning down to stare him in the face. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I stood quietly and moved away from the fire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

No one paid any heed to their orders; but as the ruffians passed, they closed in quietly behind and followed them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Walking quietly down the hallway, I pass the empty nurses’ station and freeze in front of her door, hearing music softly playing on the other side. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Even the birds have stopped singing,” Constance said quietly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gazzaley listened quietly as he dug into a chopped salad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now they rotted quietly, neglected, sad, but filled with mysterious memories. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But McGonagall said we’ve got to stay in our tower unless we’re in class —” “I think,” said Harry, more quietly still, “it’s time to get my dad’s old Cloak out again.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“Andrius said they thought his father had international contacts. Now the Soviets think Papa has communication with someone outside Lithuania,” said Jonas quietly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“All this press attention seems to have inflated your already overlarge head, Potter,” said Snape quietly, once the rest of the class had settled down again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Soon the other horses came up and stood quietly by, as if awaiting orders. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But most of the time I walked quietly by, trying not to disturb him, until I got to our shared territory and then to my room, where nobody ever went besides Mabel and me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Though our forces were not victorious, we quietly celebrated the fact that our MK cadres had engaged the enemy in combat on their own terms. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sing the song over and over again, quietly into the windowpane, my forehead pressed against the cool glass. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

As though if you don’t talk about him, maybe he’ll disappear as quietly as he come that day in the rain. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was worried she’d be scared when the Henrietta in the book has to live all on her own, but she just closed her eyes quietly and listened. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The latter would simply smile, quietly pick up the phone and threaten to call the police, and we would leave. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have liked to sit quietly for a moment, brood over what Miss Lavinia had told him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he said quietly, “You know about your mother.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She gives us mugs of tea and cuts of fried bread and we sit at the table eating quietly because you’re not supposed to say a word unless she tells you. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, as though from far away, Omakayas felt the tentative brush of Tallow’s tough, creased palm, and heard the rustle of her clothes as she got up and quietly left. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not knowing that I saw them, and setting herself to get the better of them, she said quietly,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Booth spotted his horse standing quietly in the alley, just a few steps away. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth hummed quietly to herself, shelling peas into a large wooden bowl, and Becky chopped kale. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw his face reflected in the quietly moving water, and there was something in this reflection that reminded him of something he had forgotten and when he reflected on it, he remembered. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went on, “Ryan Dean has a particularly interesting theory on sexual tension that is quietly hinted at, like an urgent whisper, by Hemingway in ‘The Three-Day Blow.’” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he gets closer to me, speaking quietly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then I went upstairs again really quietly, but it was difficult because my legs were shaking. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The papers were in English, which my uncle could not read, so the man read them to him and translated them into Krio as I waited quietly and listened carefully. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe...just the wind,” Bennie said very quietly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He quietly walked away from the girl, toward the closest pen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered at how his body had changed—so quietly, from a flatmuscled boy’s body into a man’s body. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sang quietly to herself as she cooked, in a voice like a thousand old women all singing at the tops of their voices at once. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the only thing I want from you, Hal,” he said quietly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Just listen,” Frankie said quietly, laying his hand over mine as I began to rise. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gone, too, is the woman Zeitoun found in her foyer—the woman whose cries he heard because he paddled quietly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

How could we take this abuse so quietly, so meekly, with our heads bowed and a quick tip of the cap to our killers? Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We walked quietly inside for another meal of sardines and rice. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced over at Sam, who was quietly cleaning his plate. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“That,” she said quietly, “is despicable. Ask for his help, then double-cross him? And you wonder why goblins don’t like wizards, Ron?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was something that would never go away, he said quietly, and I nodded and told him I felt the same about certain things. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried on quietly, hand, foot, weight, move, test, hand, foot....Their fingers were raw, their knees and hips were trembling with the effort, their heads ached and rang with exhaustion. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She says the last word so quietly that I almost don’t hear it, and her tense, worried look returns. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then Ogion began to lay a spell, very quietly, weaving the web of magic with his hands more than with words. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She never raises her voice, gets angry, or cries; she is quietly reproachful, as if her headache is our fault. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tended quietly to his apples and rhododendrons, his chinaberries and mulberry hedges, his rows of vegetables and flowers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We don’t need any hinges today, Dad says quietly. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have a little girl with them,” Mark said quietly. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Even though he was speaking quietly, the other kids finishing the test could hear. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘I too once passed the Dimrill Gate,’ said Aragorn quietly; ‘but though I also came out again, the memory is very evil. I do not wish to enter Moria a second time.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to show the projections in here?” she said quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the little girl ironing away so quietly with her head bent over the board and he was stabbed by the soft sadness on the child’s thin face. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Corcorans sat very quietly, hands in laps: how can they just sit there? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo whipped the leather thong against the metal, and the bell hummed quietly in reply. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

We sit quietly until Baba returns, happy that he’s managed to exchange gold jewelry for a thick wad of Turkish money. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Settle down, children,” she says so quietly, I strain to catch her words. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“I have told you so already,” said the Princess quietly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we were entirely out of our sleeping bags, making out quietly. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly how I envisioned that part,” he said quietly, with a grin. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the morning the children formed a double line, something Ralph had never before witnessed, and walked quietly to the library, where they selected books to read. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

This is stupid, Sierra thought, making her way as quietly as possible down a corridor between two bookshelves. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

On the forty-first move, after five hours of play, with his heart slightly pounding, Bobby lifted his rook with his trembling right hand, quietly lowered the piece to the board, and said, “Mate!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he wondered, quietly aloud, how they had built this city to last the ages through, and had they ever come to Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to jump off the cliff,” I told her quietly. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We walked quietly for a while—two chums having a smoke together. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He never says anything, but he seems quietly happier. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Quietly, ever so quietly, he slips a knife from the kitchen drawer, thrusts it into the hall closet lock, jabs it hard, upward, once, jimmies open the door. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly and watched, my throat feeling thick and scratchy. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I sat in the chair next to him, leaned close, and said quietly, "Charlie, I'm really sorry if you're upset, but please talk to me. I can't help you if you don't talk to me." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He crouched low, stepping as quietly as possible. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Without even waiting to see if he’d hit the man, though certain he had not, the agent triggered open the chamber, bapped out the spent shells, and quietly, almost calmly, reloaded the gun. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group of native men who have come with Captain Smith stand quietly watching as the gentlemen roll barrels of provisions up the riverbank. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He could hear her giving the class some sort of assignment in arithmetic before she came out and quietly closed the door behind her. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is where the French queen waited for death, praying quietly, grieving the loss of home, husband, children. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even while they were not talking their breaths in the tomblike air vaporised gently and quietly. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animals listened quietly to Roz and thought of their own struggles to survive. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lara rhymed quietly and nervously—and with even more flagrant disregard for the beat than me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He knelt on the ground and very quietly he opened the suitcase. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by the door and said quietly, “I’m not happy, Kosi. I love somebody else. I want a divorce. I will make sure you and Buchi lack nothing.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Colonel ran up to Alaska, and they started fighting about something quietly enough that I couldn’t hear the words so much as the mutual annoyance, and I finally asked Takumi where we were headed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And he said wondering, “Now I should have said you had lived quietly and easily in my courts.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Plainclothes detectives soon were quietly identified to me, by a nod, a wink. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat there for a while, quietly, as the rain splattered against the windows. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man realized what I was doing, softened his manner, and finally stamped his document and said quietly, “Welcome to the Sudan.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he retires to his own rooms, a suite three times the size of his flat, Marco quietly returns to the library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“If they kill me,” he said, “lie quietly. And when they are gone away, go to Loreto. ” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

They continued walking very quietly and Stanley began to make out the faint sounds of Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“No more than all the rest,” she answered him quietly. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the early 1970s I remember hearing professors quietly admit their alarm over various aspects of what was then called the Third World Student Movement. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark and Alec quietly exited the first house and moved on to the next. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Silence settled over the room quickly, though he didn’t know if it was because people were actually asleep or just scared, quietly hoping against hope the Grievers didn’t come again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And he spent the whole night quietly sleeping in his mother’s arms. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“If you ask me,” said Harry quietly, “McLaggen looks like he was Confunded this morning. And he was standing right in front of where you were sitting.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, when the weather is good they go backpacking all the time — even the doctor. They’re all real outdoorsy,” she told me quietly, examining her shoes, too. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They must sit quietly and listen while Ma read Bible stories to them, or stories about lions and tigers and white bears from Pa’s big green book, The Wonders of the Animal World. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in all that spirit talk,” Polly said quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

William and the dozen other oblates would be expected to sit quietly and absorb the “wisdom” that Bartholomew bestowed upon them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In an effort to get her to sleep quietly, her father has told her that people don’t talk at night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth quietly answered “Undoubtedly;” and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The watcher turned his head to listen and then he stood up, and one of the sleepers stirred on the ground and awakened and asked quietly, “What is it?” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom stayed out of the conversation, sketching quietly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever we were approaching a roadblock, I would quietly start reciting prayers that I hoped would aid my passing through it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Girl,” asked her mother, quietly, “is you sure you know what you’s doing?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I saw you from my front window,” she said, quietly. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

For now, I move around the Commandant quietly, setting down her breakfast tray, clearing her tea from the night before, laying out her uniform. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I returned it to her; she received it quietly, and without saying anything she was about to relapse into her former studious mood: again I ventured to disturb her— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He said quietly to Magister Spurge, “There is nothing better than being with friends, is there? As our hostess put it, planting you face in meat and starts to bite?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They both waited, staring quietly at each other until the room emptied. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the night he got up, dressed quietly and went out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved through them quietly, without being noticed. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t notice that Gerald had quietly opened Angel’s door or that two uniformed police officers were standing there until just before they grabbed him and handcuffed him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we knew that when an idea was quietly everywhere, had been whispered far and wide, all that was needed was the right person to blow it sky-high. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

On deck, soldiers banged sword against shield, while archers quietly strung their bows and pulled the first arrow from the quivers at their belts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Deen had taken his usual spot beside her, but on his other side, for the first time, Sam sat, quietly nervous. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They got up and withdrew quietly into the shadows, and made for the doors. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She walked quietly along, listening, until she heard voices. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What shall we do?” said one of the men quietly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weather box on the front door sang quietly: “Rain, rain, go away; rubbers, raincoats for today . . .” And the rain tapped on the empty house, echoing. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We know, we know,” my dad said as my mother’s eyes welled with tears and I stood quietly at her side. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We wandered the halls quietly, or my mom would come out and shush us with eyes gigantic like, “Don’t make him angry.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His mother looked after him for a moment and then went quietly back to her work. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was irritable and no longer content to spend the evenings quietly in their home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We sat quietly, the only sounds the occasional cry of the curlew and Lottie’s contented nursing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly, staring down at the prayer book on my stand. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I went quietly to my room and lay upon the bed, brooding. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kingdom was held together by thousands of miles of footpaths crossing the forest, with suspension bridges of woven vines swinging quietly over the rivers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grandmother explained quietly without her having to ask that it was the room of Chadwell, Courtney’s older brother, a pilot who had one day crashed into the steaming jungles of Vietnam. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Will they kill the bird?” she asked quietly. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I can prove I am what I say I am!” said Fenoglio, so quietly that apart from Capricorn only Basta could hear his words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Johnny slipped into the shop so quietly that Mr. Hancock did not even look up. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Does that sound like Bunny to you?” he said quietly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Of course you will,” he said quietly. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s just stop right here,” Dad said quietly, pointing his finger in Mr. Tushman’s face. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Chairs were set up along the walls of the house, and into the yard, and people from the neighborhood, and some I’d never seen before, sat quietly sipping coffee or talking in whispers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Who would have guessed three months ago that quicksilver Anne would have to sit so quietly for hours on end, and what’s more, that she could? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“What more can you expect?” she asked him quietly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She then sat quietly for a little interval, without reaching for her cigarette pack and matches. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

My parents and I continue up the stairs quietly. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Ai, Chihuahua . . .” And, now that it had devoured most of the town’s water snakes, that grubby yellow feline reincarnation of Cleofes Apodaca was pitter-pattering quietly along the irrigation ditches, hunting frogs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This gray day in late January, among perfect strangers all looking across the river with yearning eyes to a glittering place for a glittering future, quietly I become older—fifteen. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I actually find it quite useful,” Bob said quietly, to himself, but he took his pack away and bothered us no more. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother lit into me at suppertime, but to my surprise my father quietly took my part. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learn which fork to use with which course and how to sip soup quietly and what wine to drink with what kind of dish. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good dog!” he said quietly, holding out one hand. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had joined us two days prior, just wandered out of the forest alone and quietly began following us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Would he have stayed quietly in a corner? The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then change it,” his father said simply, quietly, after a while. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

While we walked, she quietly sang a song she used to sing to me when I was a kid. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I treated you good,” said Weylin quietly, “and you pay me back by stealing from me! Stealing my books! Reading!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he had a good point,” Winston said, almost too quietly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

As for James, he was so spellbound by the whole thing that he could only stand and stare and murmur quietly to himself, “Oh, isn’t it beautiful. It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before two years passed, the rash pair were both dead, and laid quietly side by side under one slab. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

After talking quietly for an hour, Lincoln left, and never saw Seward again. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything’s going to work out,” she says quickly, quietly, and starts the engine. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about that, Luke. I was just—just surprised to see you,” Hank said quietly. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He usually stood in the corner by the cash register, his arms folded over his chest, quietly observing all that went on around him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stands quietly beside me now, out of character for him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said quietly, “Mister, I don’t know if you believe all that you said, but you sure gave me a hand up.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serber looked down at his notes and began reading quietly, with a slight stutter. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved about, talking quietly, calm, singsong rhythms. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I think I could help you,’ said Merry quietly, ‘by telling you some of it myself.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ron looked carefully up the table to check that the rest of the family were all busy talking, then he said very quietly to Harry, “So — have you heard from Sirius lately?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

To spend the treasure quietly, bit by bit. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Little often discussed Stuart quietly between themselves when he wasn’t around, for they had never quite recovered from the shock and surprise of having a mouse in the family. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Grandma weeps quietly, huge tears dampening her face. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe if we get to a new home, I could slip quietly out the door one morning. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t expect you to choose Book Scavenger or doing anything with me,” Emily said quietly. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The three of us sitting quietly around the kitchen table reminded me of days spent helping Mamd in Cuba. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We stay on the roof until bedtime and then quietly slip down to my room without encountering anyone. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lay quietly, still shaken by the terror of his nightmare. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood quietly before them, and she was smiling! The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s giving you any dragging stuff, Arthur,” the gray-haired man said quietly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry about what happened before,” she says quietly. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She drew close and said quietly, “Matthias, Dunwing knew! First day you come here I see belt you wear. It all same as thing behind chair in King’s room.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He gave his own son to the dementors?” asked Harry quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She laughed quietly, thinking of Matt and his mischief. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And somehow, even though he was playing the accordion, and no matter how quietly I crept over, the accordion-man would always hear the swoosh of the dollar bill as it fell into the accordion case. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Marshall listened quietly, intently, and asked a few questions concerning other aspects of Malcolm X’s life, then thanked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cursing quietly, he shoved the thing aside and crept toward the double doors that led to the movie theater’s auditorium. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I quietly assessed where we were going by the number of trees I’d see on the street outside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Being quietly married was one thing; being married and a mother was quite another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Bellingham is eager to arrest you,” Charles quietly told Master Lockton. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spying on the French, Washington has his men quietly count canoes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to talk about it?” he asked quietly. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Mariam,” he said quietly, “there’s still packing to do, and we’re leaving really early in the morning. Are you sure this treasure of yours is so important?” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see his face from the hallway, so I walked in quietly to let him know that I was finished talking with Auggie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear anything, so I started going downstairs really quietly and really slowly. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His lips moved quietly, murmuring the words of a prayer. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They might look quietly at their paper dolls, but they must not make anything new for them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched them, feeling very young and inexperienced and yet strangely old, with an oldness that watched and waited quietly within me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still ironing out a few things,” my dad replied quietly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We followed him, quietly dragging our bodies on rotten leaves. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She says it so quietly, I lean over the tray of cookies I’m holding to hear her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The iron gate creaked quietly as she pushed it open, almost as if it were welcoming her home. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The accused man looked at the jurors now, ignoring Alvin Hooks entirely, and answered quietly and evenly in their direction, as if there were no one else present. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We will ask you some questions, Prudence,” said the magistrate quietly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

And when she had finished and had pushed the bucket around the ground with her nose a little, she stepped quietly over to Jody and rubbed her cheek against him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, as a group, he thought, they quietly conspired to keep things calm. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the years since coming to Washington, George Pocock had quietly become its high priest. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her eyes blazed then, her voice quietly furious. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he had sat quietly by the water’s edge and dreamed dreams? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders asked me quietly why I wasn’t coming over to see him anymore, and I explained that my father and I were studying Talmud together on Shabbat afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Jaja, you did not go to communion,” Papa said quietly, almost a question. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Xerox machine hummed quietly in the corner. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Is this still about keeping things professional?” he asked quietly. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ralph sat quietly on the floor and George was trying a little harness on him made out of old Christmas tinsel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary and the cousins were playing quietly in the yard, when they heard a loud, blubbering cry. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says quietly, “I’m sorry, what did you say? You’re done?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dex, who brought the deserter in, slips away quietly, his darkly handsome face slightly sick. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then Slim went quietly over to her, and he felt her wrist. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want to see wildlife, it is on foot, and quietly, that you must explore a forest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me a story, Resa!” he said quietly, moving closer to her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Where did your mother go?” she asks, so quietly she might as well be whispering. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s amazing what you can see when you just sit quietly and look.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I sat quietly because I thought he was recovering from his exertion. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bong reduced to touch and sound, he found himself in better sympathy with these, and could go quietly and quick. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So tell me ...,” he says quietly as we climb. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Their dæmons climbed ahead of them, talking quietly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After five minutes without a response, he turned it off and quietly slipped out the door. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Hound, ever faithful, bowed and slid away quietly through the press. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I quietly left, and later discovered that this had not been an isolated incident but part of the largest nationwide raid undertaken in South African history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a second of standing quietly, he reaches down and picks up the dishwashing soap. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t ever do that to me again,” he said quietly. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I got out of bed, climbed quietly down the ladder, and crouched by the top of the stairs. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later on, as a middle-aged optometrist, he would weep quietly and privately sometimes, but never make loud boohooing noises. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lon walked quietly into the center of the indoor meadow and looked around. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Say, boy, I’m from the North,” he said quietly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat will settle quietly on the windowsill and caress her with his eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as he could, he dug in his bag and pulled out Nkrumah’s journal. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Joey had gone into the porch slowly, closing the screen door quietly behind him. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“She looks stronger than before,” the prince said quietly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Anya returned Alsvindr to his little barn and brushed him down quietly as she let the idea of bringing Papa back swirl through her mind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you, dear boy?” and quietly sat down again. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He mentioned this to the goose, who was sitting quietly in a corner of the sheepfold. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Chuck quietly stepped up onto a big wooden box that sat right under the window. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Melyngar herself stepped quietly; hardly a twig snapped under her hoofs. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“He had a paint job this morning on Sixth Avenue, off Adams,” Lily said quietly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He asked me if I had the patience to sit and listen quietly, and I nodded. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although dubious and afraid, Shin listened and sang with Park, but quietly. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Once inside, he devoured nearly the entire loaf and sat on the floor, his back against the bed, crying quietly. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The guard at the museum quietly locked the galleries. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped and quietly asked, "Do you know, Mrs. Olinski, how Julian first invited The Souls to tea?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of person do you think I am?” she asked very quietly. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Few people bothered to return for a second helping, but one girl in her middle teens sat quietly on a bench waiting for a third. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just a book of scripture quietly waiting to say hello, as gentle and powerful as a little girl’s kiss on your cheek. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I walk quietly beside him as we approach the entrance to the bathhouse, wondering how I can cheer him up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Kino crawled quietly close to her and he put his lips near to her cheek. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surprised at seeing a strange man sitting on the floor, Captain Cook quietly walked over and began to peck him curiously. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, after a quick meal, Pa sits quietly outside by himself and stares at the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Cade and I drove quietly to school the morning after I met her. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She turned quietly and went back and sat on the veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most were talking quietly, or playing card games. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to see?” she asked, quietly, so quietly in the snow. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Easily, quietly, Suicide Day became a part of the fabric of life up in the Bottom of Medallion, Ohio. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In a hundred valley houses fires started burning in combination wood and gas stoves, and men, dressed already in irrigation boots, quietly ate breakfast with their wives and children. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He entered the house and found his mother talking quietly on the telephone. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they knew also that she was allowed to sit quietly with a book during lessons and not pay attention to the teacher. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

To Hercules’ question who was dead he answered quietly that a woman of his household, but no relative of his, was to be buried that day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we came home in the morning, we quietly ate leftovers from the party the night before, which felt like a million years ago. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“She stayed and talked with me while I ate, then left quietly to return to their own apartment where Mr. Friedman was engrossed in his...research.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Roy couldn’t think of what to say, so he quietly dropped the subject. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to Ben’s cabin the slaves moved so quietly, so slowly, so stealthily, that they might have been part of the night itself. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know of your father,” he said to me quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And as the moon came low on the horizon Dunstan Thorn walked quietly down the cobbled streets of the village of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Volta glanced at Rowan and said quietly, “The best thing about these gleanings is that it’s over quick.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We exhaled quietly, afraid that our own breathing could cause our death. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Reuven, you have a good head on you,” he said quietly in Yiddish. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She talked quietly while she got dressed, telling me to tie my shoes, and be certain to carry my wool sweater, and to put on my leather jacket Her hands were not shaking. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove on quietly for a few further moments. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At supper I sat quietly, listening to the chatter of the Belsize women. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then his fingers crawled up along his trembling leg to his holstered pistol, very quietly, and stroked and tapped the leather sheath. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To tell him the children are well,” he said, then hesitated, and said quietly, “Nusuth, no matter,” and left me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sit quietly sipping their cider for a bit, leaning against the trunk of the tree. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She went into her room and rummaged around in there for a bit while I tried to decide if I could slip out of Daddy’s office quietly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“My wife has been chosen for me,” he said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s not a citizen either,” Elizabeth says to Maddy, so quietly I can hardly hear her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Sister,” he said quietly, and the voice was one she had never heard before and would not have known for his. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dark blue pony beads hung down a swatch of fringe, and Fishtail touched them carefully and lovingly as he stepped quietly along. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not wanting to attract attention, Blake and his friends parted quietly. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There will never be a Negro living in the town of Phippsburg,” Mr. Stonecrop said quietly. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was another strange thing about Ultima as she stood with her arms crossed, quietly watching my father work. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How fitting that I am called the Palace of Illusions when all I have left are memories. Perhaps memories are the grandest illusion of all,” said the palace quietly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He begins talking, very fast, very quietly in my ear, my hair concealing his lips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She slid the metal bars back in place when we were through, and we made our way quietly down the dark stairs of our apartment building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I walked as slowly and as quietly as I could out of the church. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of the few ironic remarks Phineas ever made, and with it he quietly brought to a close all his special inventions which had carried us through the winter. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom has started to cry, very, very quietly. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It is naturally an unpleasant thing to have happen,” said Mary Debenham quietly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting down again, she held it out to Lon, who began laughing quietly. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Wow, scary thought, the boy You-Know-Who,” said Ron quietly, as they took their places around one of the gnarled Snargaluff stumps that formed this term’s project, and began pulling on their protective gloves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Well done,” said Dumbledore quietly, so that only Harry could hear. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Some wipe their eyes and confer quietly with others near the front of the line. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There were deep pools of knowledge in the dusty volumes quietly shelved in the libraries, and Antain thirsted for all of them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She glanced at Mona, who was still asleep, and then reached for the closest volume, pulling it down as quietly as possible and opening it in her lap. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

So Chris sat quietly, his body at ease, and heard about ghosts and ghouls and purple waves, and smiled at his brother with pure delight. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that school was over, Fern visited the barn almost every day, to sit quietly on her stool. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

She stood quietly at the glass for a while, her shoulders trembling. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I am tired. I am so tired ...” “We have some emergency fuel reserves in the chaplaincy,” Father Amadi said quietly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was he, and they followed him and watched him The Buddha went quietly on his way, lost in thought His peaceful countenance was neither happy nor sad. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slip out of our hospital gowns and quietly duck into the hallway, the backpack strapped onto Max's shoulders. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She moved quietly and talked little, but she could enter no room without causing everyone to turn toward her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And what did your father do with you, when he had got you home?” said Dumbledore quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“All this might be tough for you to understand,” he said quietly. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I go all the way in and quietly shut the door behind me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think only if he’s cornered. He’s lost his natural ferocity. His claws are covered. If—if I could find him, I think he’d come quietly.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I almost wish he had asked me instead,” he said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“When I whistle once,” Papa continued, “then you come quietly and quickly and run right in that one,” he pointed to a house in the middle of the cluster. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I raised her up quietly, with hammering heart. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We barely even argued, but a snake of tension quietly slithered into our lives. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She inched slightly closer, then quietly swore again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m surprised you know that,” I say quietly, “since you left halfway through my one and only fight.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I think he recognised my thought in my eyes, for he said very quietly, manifestly for the ears of the attendant:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

It was Mrs. Dalton, sitting quietly, her frail, waxen hands folded in her lap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to leave now,” I say quietly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Valentina quietly insisted that was not the case; she said something had been wrong with the flight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke so quietly, I had to lean forward to hear her. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this is supposed to be done gracefully, naturally, and quietly. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bends her head and shoulders so she is lower than the cook, and quietly says, “Please comrade, one for me and one for my three-year-old daughter.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I think so too,” Father said quietly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in London, Blake slipped quietly into his new routine of spying on England for the KGB—all the while pretending to spy on the Soviets for MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lettie was quietly putting the food and drinks back into the bandana. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to make a record,” he said quietly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What’re we going to do?” said Ron quietly in Harry’s ear. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I carried my head low by instinct, and I had the courage for only a short glance at him before I said quietly, “I’ve brought your stuff.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he reassured her, Emma still was not happy with Lyell, and especially not with the way he treated his wife, who just sat quietly and did not say much. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed, as firmly and as quietly as she believed that Kainene would come home soon, that His Excellency’s journey would be a success. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She turned away, and moving as quietly as the moth Pantalaimon, she went into her bedroom and closed the door. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

As the Uncle finished his tale, they sat quietly in the main room of the cottage. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She said quietly: 'You're very kind to say so, Mr Stevens. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was Mercy, as usual, who quietly steered them into untroubled water. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She stood quietly near the door and watched. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even when I passed a quietly sobbing Miss Sarah, the limp and motionless body of Miss Rose lying in her arms. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He sits quietly in the back of the sedan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Briefly, he outlined what had happened; she accepted the news quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even small tykes, usually so unruly, clung to their mothers' hands and waited quietly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now a door was being opened quietly in the passage above; the hinges creaked. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Halfway over the still misty fields he stopped to load his gun, then walked quietly toward the cover of the alders fringing the little lake. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing it, she strode out into the hallway, shutting the door quietly behind her. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“My old man died one month later in the hot sun in the middle of a potato field outside Saguache, Colorado,” Joe finished quietly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hornet grumbled so quietly that only Prosper heard it. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It squeaked ever so quietly but opened in one motion. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Turning out the lights of his car, Sammy grabbed the shotgun, loaded two shells in the barrels, and motioned for Ben to follow him quietly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was from a very light tread — this person knew how to move quietly in a forest full of fallen twigs and leaves — and when the sound stopped, Ash knew the person had seen her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spender quietly laid his pistol at his feet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed and spoke quietly into the phone, since people were milling about. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He sits quietly and patiently, his grey-green eyes taking in every detail of the room and the man subtly, aware but not outright staring. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Or sometimes we’re not old and we die, I said quietly. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"So you really believe that," I said quietly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, a few weeks after the baby was buried, I felt him leaving our bed ever so quietly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why else do you think I’m going in?” he asks quietly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As she pushed open the door and stumbled into the pitch-dark hall she quietly cursed the man who usually kept an eye on the house and garden whenever she went away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He paused before doing so, and said quietly, almost as if he were speaking to the door itself, “Thanks, Mama.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We cooked quietly and afterward I spooned the fried vegetables and rice in bowls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tobias is stubborn and proud, but he is mine—maybe he will listen, maybe there’s a chance that all I did was not in vain— “You know why I’m here,” I say quietly. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She studied one of her own paintings quietly, then handed the glasses back to Lori. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"My king was murdered," the girl said quietly, "and not by Lady Catelyn. I swear it on my sword, by the gods old and new." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I have not wept since the death of my parents,” said Luxa quietly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the school bus, I sat quietly and leaned my head against the seat back. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The boy was sitting quietly on the bunk, still wrapped in the blanket, watching. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

"I imagine, daddy," Matilda said quietly, "that you weren't looking very hard and you simply took mummy's bottle of hair stuff off the shelf instead of your own." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The wolves followed, used to traveling quietly to catch their food. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I came to talk to you,” he said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call me that. I’m not given the title of lord,” he said quietly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The quietly inoffensive assertion of a black child’s attempt to communicate with a white adult. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lead the way quietly into the basement. Protect us from harm, but do not kill.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Laughter blew across the moon-coloured lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle who smiled so quietly and so earnestly. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We must’ve dug, like, ten feet,” Lucas said quietly, sweat still dripping from his nose. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It is not true,” she told him quietly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She blew her smoke out the side of her mouth and sat there quietly as we inched along in traffic. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I don't think like that, Zuri,” he says quietly as he places both hands at the top of the steering wheel. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Take your sister over there and wait for me,” his mom said quietly. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The cows had scattered by now, but the other bulls still sat quietly on the slope. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, you stupid men,” she muttered quietly, affectionately. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noah looks down at the ground, says quietly, “But it’s the only time she forgives me.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He spoke very quietly to the child’s wide eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Good evening," Ollie says in German as we quietly squeeze through. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be the weird kid in the helmet,” Rosa says quietly. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The lane went back to a barred gate, became defunctive in grass, a mere path scarred quietly into new grass. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got people who love me here, too,” I say, quietly, like I’m trying to convince both him and myself it’s the truth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Perry was well acquainted with the workings of such emporiums, having often patronized them, and happily, since usually he found it “so relaxing” to sit quietly and watch clothes get clean. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the MAV sits alone for years quietly making fuel, then just kind of hangs out until its crew arrives. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had finished her story, Mr. Ages sat quietly for a minute, considering it. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

While Eilonwy held up the suffering creature’s head and gave him a drink from the leather flask, Taran and the bard moved a little away and spoke quietly between themselves. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I started with both hands doing a kind of shuffled march on the snare drum, pretty quietly. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julian quietly said thank you, and no one asked why. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gently lifted the bonobo’s hand, but he tugged it away, turning his head to stare quietly out the window, his fingers making knitting motions over his rope. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I must catch it like a cough,” said Biddy, quietly; and went on with her sewing. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t leave Lavender waiting outside,” she said quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

On occasion, when they were taken under fire, Mary Anne would stand quietly and watch the tracer rounds snap by, a little smile at her lips, intent on some private transaction with the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working quickly and quietly, she began to tear these into long, narrow strips, and to tie these strips together. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Georgie still slept quietly, but Nero had gone off into the dark to hunt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It was the thing, above all, that drew us together,” he said quietly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He woke as quietly as he did everything else, with the barest twitching of his fingertips. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sat there quietly, trying not to shiver, and eventually Denna’s breathing leveled off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At two in the morning, Huynh crept quietly into the house. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Let me see,” she said quietly, and closed her eyes again. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He said, speaking more quietly than before, “I will show you a treasure that will change your mind, great Hrothgar.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immobile, bearded and hand palm-lifted the horseman sat; behind him the wild blacks and the captive architect huddled quietly, carrying in bloodless paradox the shovels and picks and axes of peaceful conquest. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I drove as quietly as I could, for on this day I intended to drive a little west and then take the long road south down the long reach of Maine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to go home?” he said quietly, a different pain than mine saturating his voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Vincent writes, “Don’t worry about your wanton life, as you call it, just go quietly on your way. You’re purer than I, and will probably get there sooner and better.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They did this and went quietly up to one of the big arched doorways whirled into the inside of the building. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

When he looked up, he saw a nondescript man with a video camera quietly filming him through the bars. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just so you know, I feel like dirt,” he said quietly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

When peach juice began to flow from his nose and when Matthew had gagged twice, Lillian quietly excused herself from the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ulbrickson mostly just watched the boys quietly, still sizing them up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Samuel sat down quietly, and he didn’t trouble Adam by looking at him too much, and he didn’t trouble him by not looking at him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I sit up with my arms wrapped around my legs, then nod quietly at her. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He peered up the statuesque figure sitting quietly on the padded board. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

All morning, I feel like I’m quietly buzzing. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Rather, he would quietly appoint a committee to deliberate for eternity over exactly which door, and of what dimensions, would best facilitate the ingress and egress of all students. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” he said quietly, “besides the headache, how are you feeling?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have anything in mind, and well you know it,” she snapped quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Following the brief group discussion, I handed her my written evaluation, which she quietly skimmed over before raising her hand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now, just sit quietly for a minute — sit\\ And then you can go and get your score.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We sat at our desks quietly while Mrs. Backus, our teacher, dictated the spelling words we had to learn by that Friday. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then Lyra heard the others sit down again, and go on talking, but more quietly. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice wobbles, just a little, and she repeats herself, quietly this time. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“To talk you into going to him quietly, and to tell you you’d be whipped this time if you resist.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile men busied themselves about the cave, quietly and in orderly quickness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

For a while, we quietly observe one another, humans and monkeys. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Surely we must wait for the Witch,” he said quietly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Wand out and follow me, Harry,” he said quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I say quietly so that only she can hear me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The village was quietly asleep and the stars above filled the sky like spilled salt on dried seaweed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He has made up his mind to go quietly, with dignity and courage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Opening the door as quietly as possible he saw a light was burning between the columns as usual. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Muscle Man is snoring, and the young man who argued with him is chatting quietly with someone else. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I spent the next six months quietly trying to empower myself without making any sort of abrupt change. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It is a pleasure to see you too, Hector,” the man in the grey suit says, closing the door quietly behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My father sipped his tea again, and we sat quietly for a while. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Coach Parker gave massive bear hugs to everyone in sight while the Permian team gathered quietly in the center of the field to pray. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who is the head of the Masks?” said Arm quietly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would go for a walk together or play chess—but more often they spent the day quietly in Singer’s room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ann is sitting quietly watching him while baby Virginia sleeps in her cradle. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

After she dried and wrapped her baby in a towel she hummed quietly while combing out the tangles and plaiting the damp hair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rested his head on her shoulder and quietly sat with her for a few minutes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I have done nothing wrong,” he said quietly. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it would help,” I said, “if you scrunched under your desk and breathed quietly and evenly.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

While they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Bucket, Charlie’s mother and father, had come quietly into the room, and now both were standing just inside the door, listening. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

We planned to quietly visit the camp and talk with people about their lives. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I slink out of our trailer, making sure the lock clicks as quietly as possible. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

You watched her blindfold Zoe, who sat obediently on your kitchen floor while Vinny quietly cut a slice from a banana, giggling and telling you to shush. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I will die quietly of blood poisoning and avoid the kerosene treatment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The deer quietly slumped over onto his side, with his glossy brown eye wide open to the sun and pink foam collecting around his sad, quivering mouth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few moments later, my door opens quietly, and Max slips in with a teal backpack at her side. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It makes its way inside me and travels, quietly gnawing at my thoughts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The wheels on the track are not screeching but gliding smoothly and quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Al Ulbrickson sat quietly in the launch at the finish line, listening to the band on the Chippewa play “Bow Down to Washington.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I try to breathe as quietly as possible. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No matter what happens,” she said quietly, “I want to thank you.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“So how about you?” he asked quietly, raising the burning match to Basta’s face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He sat quietly, silently, suspended, breathing the good warm air, the smoke, the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to let Mike drive me home because he’s high, but there’s nothing I can do about it, so I just sit quietly in the backseat. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Wang Lung answered quickly and quietly that he was well, and as he looked at his son his fear went out of him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I jammed the flashlight into my back pocket and walked quietly behind the garage, where I had a bag with my Grim Reaper costume. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She came in so quietly I didn’t hear. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah?” said Moody quietly, limping forward a few steps, the dull clunk of his wooden leg echoing around the hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Breathing quietly, she fights to keep her eyelids open, but in the end she loses and falls to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told the students that as long as they were reading and/or sitting quietly at their desks, I wouldn’t force them to actually do the work they had been assigned. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I walked quietly around the back pew and went to the end of one line. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is for the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors,” he said quietly. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dutchy and I are standing together talking quietly when a man approaches with skin as tanned and scuffed as old shoe leather, trailed by a sour-looking woman. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sitting side by side beneath the same rug, they talk quietly and look around the settlement with sleep-swollen eyes. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the last hour or so, he’s sat quietly, his brow knitted in concentration, staring at the Nut through the window glass. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

"Nu, Reuven,” he said quietly, "finally, finally you come to see me.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He would sit quietly and rock in the chair until the sense of order was in him once more. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Moving quietly, she swam across the millpond to the sluice and climbed up the wall. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Beneath my laid-back college-kid demeanor, I lived like a half-closeted CEO, quietly but unswervingly focused on achievement, bent on checking every box. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The sensation came quietly at first, a low hum, like something rumbling just beneath his feet. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They parked down the street and wished me luck, and I quietly slipped out of the car. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Leaning against a wall was a muscular adult female bonobo; she was sitting there so quietly that I hadn’t noticed her before. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer words, for there were many nationalities in the crowd; so I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from my bag and looked them out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

For a moment she froze in fear, but then she pushed herself up and moved quietly to the bedroom door. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I lie quietly for a while, eyes open, trying to catch my breath. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You must speak to him with respect,” the headman said quietly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was breathing quietly, no longer bothered by my dream or by me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother spoke quietly to the woman with the son my age. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Father began to speak quietly then of the Old Ones, the spirits of the dead members of our family to whom we offered food and the sweet smell of incense that pleased them so well. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes," he said quietly, “it capsized and sank. She was washed overboard.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I slept a long time,” I said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Very quietly I got up and put on my clothes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quietly close the door behind them and leave Joon and me standing there. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I dress and leave the hall as quietly as I can. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had already cried while Gregor was still lying quietly on his back. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d just sit there quietly, waiting for him to wake up and keep going. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At first light, he got up and quietly scrubbed away the mud Jen had tracked in and up the stairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The summer ended quietly, and that was fine with me. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When they heard this song, the crocodiles slipped into the river and quietly swam closer so that they could hear the words more clearly. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She gingerly eased herself out of bed to avoid waking Gwen, and dressed as quietly as possible. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon they would come home in groups, talking quietly beneath the naked maples, the striped blankets they had used to sit on now wrapped around their shoulders. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her grandmother, who had raised her, sat watching quietly, with folded hands. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It would be easy for Mrs. Danvers to open those doors softly and close them again, and then steal quietly across the shrouded room and look down upon me from behind the drawn curtains. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Moving quietly, I crept halfway down the stairs and listened. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The boys ate quickly and quietly, wolfed their food. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He read it quietly, attentively, waiting, sharing her pain. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He quietly took out a camera but hesitated, knowing that the sound would scare the bird away. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t the only one on the bus crying quietly. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

For just as he ran he put his hand in his pocket, and the ring slipped quietly on to his finger. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She had her eyes closed when the three men came quietly into her room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

What had he done after he went quietly away? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I feel him shift quietly as he laces his fingers through mine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

As quietly as I could, I shifted my weight from one leg to the other to get the blood flowing again. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Quietly, very quietly, she slipped under the covers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I could pole a skiff quickly and quietly, and nearsighted as he was he could spy a crab by just a tip of the claw through grass and muck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minimalism had in fact begun to emerge, rather quietly, in the 1960s, but it made a louder entrance in the 1970s, spearheaded by American composers Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s only numbers,” he says, quietly enough that Hauptmann cannot hear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she hummed to herself as she walked, and other times she listened quietly to the songs inside her. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The window shade bellied slowly in and then the night wind fell and the worn shade flapped quietly against the window. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were even some pamphlets about the museum around the house, which she quietly researched. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles sat quietly while I talked and didn’t say anything for a long time after. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say to lie,” his mother said quietly, looking away. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

At nine o’clock they went to bed and lay quietly, hand in hand, he fifty-five, she sixty, in the raining darkness. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom shuts the closet door quietly behind her. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He presses a few buttons and extends a hand to Alex, and, quietly, “Your Song” starts to play from the tiny speaker. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘You have not said all that you know or guess, Aragorn my friend,’ he said quietly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He pushes through the door, and as much as my big sister instincts want to stop him, he moves with such intent, I just watch to see what he’ll do, quietly shadowing him. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were behaving as quietly and were as obedient to their leaders as those who had been so carefully picked for this work of destruction. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” Ged said to Jasper, quietly as before, “what are you going to do to prove yourself my superior, Jasper?” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Padva remarks, subtly tilting her glass in the direction of the door, where Marco is standing quietly to the side, his hands clasped behind his back. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He suffered in silence, waiting quietly for help to come to him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

People shifted quietly on their cushions or pushed their plates away so they wouldn’t clank during the singing. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Doc walked quietly down the stairs and into the cellar. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would just listen and sit quietly with me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The lake still shimmered quietly in its own indifference to him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was among a group of three or four fine does who were talking quietly together and seemed to be feeding as well. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does, and the tone lingers and we wait quietly until it's over. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Afterward Davis and Burnham remained at the club arguing quietly until five o’clock the next morning. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I get in, classical music plays quietly. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cara stood to one side and watched quietly as he read the whole thing. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“If we stay together, we will die together,” she says quietly, “but if they cannot find us, they cannot kill us.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to interrupt when you’re...meditating,” I said quietly and, I hoped, peacefully so that I wouldn’t ruin her calm mood, “but I want to volunteer to work on the musical.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them, who showed signs of defects, quietly died in infancy, whether in the course of nature or with some assistance is not certain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As lives go, I'll take the quietly desperate over the radically bipolar. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

After Hermione had gone to bed that night, Harry quietly extracted his rucksack from Hermione’s beaded bag, and from inside it, the photograph album Hagrid had given him so long ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But when he spoke to her again, it was quietly enough. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe,” I said quietly, “everyone is wrong.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later, Father tapped on the door, calling quietly, “Callie?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A minute later, she heard the bathroom door open, steps coming down the hall, and then Jamie’s door, closing quietly. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

My father turned to Caroline and me and spoke quietly. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Boobie tried to find the natural rhythm of the year before, Mike edged closer and closer to a dream he had quietly harbored for much of his life. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got up then, moving quietly in the dark house, hearing the snores of Robert and old Grandma. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she told him about Joe he had left sadly, but quietly. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already signed in,” I answered quietly, not looking at her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He steps quietly over to the chair against the wall, right at the edge of the curtain. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We hunker down in a shady corner to wait it out, sitting quietly within the solid walls. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ogden moved forward quietly and, it seemed to Harry, rather cautiously. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She quietly lowered herself to the middle step and pretended to pick a splinter from the bottom of her foot. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he said slowly, “It shows us what we want... whatever we want.. “Yes and no,” said Dumbledore quietly. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He listened quietly, staring off into space, and I assumed he was collecting his thoughts for an answer, but a few minutes later he cleared his throat and shook his head. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what it is, but people keep rushing around, talking quietly, and Jeanine gives speeches about how corrupt Abnegation is all the time, almost every day.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And we sang the whole song, from beginning to end, as quietly as if we were praying in church. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Every day in class, Antain sat in the back and worked quietly. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

From behind one pillar I could peep round quietly at the full front of the mansion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I tiptoe to her closet and start digging through her things as quietly as possible. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At this moment, Katie was walking down the stairs quietly with the bar of yellow soap in her hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around, and with a jolt of surprise saw an old wizard with large, pale eyes standing quietly by the window. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone spoke in hushed tones, treading quietly over the decks. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“What do you think I ought to do?” he asked steadily and quietly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until he fell asleep and then I got up quietly and went outside, down the stairs and into the dark courtyard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she found her fur-lined coat, and they very quietly left the chamber and made their way down the dark stairs. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He went quickly and quietly, and Juana trotted behind him to keep up. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put that on very quietly and then lay down again, concentrating on relaxing individual parts of my body. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His father quietly tapped his pen through the reading. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He motioned to Angel, left the paper sack of groceries on the bottom step, and quietly tiptoed up the steps. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Freedom is a delicate idea, like a pretty leaf in the air: It’s hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it,” she observed quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gimme that skillet, Buddy,” he asked quietly, not taking his eyes from the rat. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

True, she moved slowly and quietly, so as not to alarm him; yet she did wish he would see the kindness in her eyes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Cham listened quietly, nodding, as lie after lie tumbled forth. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He would remember it, and quietly whisper it to the recipient when he came to take care of his business later that day. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Jesus, Daisy, don’t spend it all at once,” I said quietly, so Mom wouldn’t hear. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I think you had better go upstairs,” he said quietly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then father and son would quietly read the paper and sip their coffee together before Bobby would rise, pat his Pop on the shoulder, and head off to ride the commuter train into Manhattan. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I shut my door—quietly, because I couldn’t quite bring myself to slam it—and I lay down on my bed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Cal closed the door quietly and went back through the living room. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We studied together quietly for another hour before she said she needed to leave for dinner with her parents. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” he says, more quietly, his accent fading, the faintest touch of dread returning to his voice, “here we are. Home.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Finally looking slightly bewildered at the lack of enthusiasm, Willie had the good sense to take the tip and leave quietly. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You know the worst thing about all this?” he says quietly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So he took the embroidery as quietly as possible and jumped onto the waiting horse. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He wept quietly, and Abra stroked his cheek and wiped the flowing tears away with the edge of her skirt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fire went out of Samuel’s eyes and he said quietly, “Your sons have no names.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed profoundly unlikely, but the idea was out there, in public, and the sophomore boys already had begun to talk quietly about it among themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen France sleep, the Eiffel Tower shining brightly in the distance, lights quietly shutting off in third-floor apartments, the moon drifting lazily into view. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Then the slaves slipped out of the cabin as quietly as they had entered it, one at a time, bare feet making no sound at all on the hard smooth ground outside. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose it was necessary,” he said quietly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As quietly as I could, I removed the screen from my window, set it against the wall, climbed into the flowerbed outside, and slid the storm window shut behind me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s better than dressing up like a chachalaca,” I say quietly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I asked quietly, ignoring his question, still staring up. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I sank back to the floor as quietly as I could. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And one morning, late in September, he shared some breaking news, additional details of which were passed quietly around B-block for the next few days. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, I told him quietly, I had never had that kind of experience. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He passed away quietly in the night a short time later. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bobby now realized that there was nothing about his destiny that was inevitable, and yet he would not go quietly into the chess night. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before Clay could speak, however, Polly spoke up quietly, “She probably already has a name, sir.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the three of us sat there in the afternoons, reading or talking quietly, until it was time for supper. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

To his credit, he moves quietly, his footsteps silent on the tile. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He continued cheering quietly and kept clapping his hands in excitement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my cleats and the rest of my bloody practice clothes, threw my pack over my shoulder, and quietly walked out without turning back once. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time, they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against him, quietly, I unlocked my voice and sang in the forest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priest led him into a parlor heavy with tobacco smoke, where a cast-iron samovar steamed quietly on a side table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To be educated in my Baltimore mostly meant always packing an extra number 2 pencil and working quietly. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Without looking back once, he opened the door with the Venetian printer's mark on it and closed it quietly behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After she returned with the scissors, Omakayas quietly took up the deer bone from her mother’s skin bag and began working on the moose hide without being asked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I will knock and say “trick or treat” like a song, and Madge will play it on the trombone—A, A, F—quietly, she says, with a glance at my muffs. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I had little time to think much about it, but quietly I worried that as my visibility as Barack Obama’s wife rose, the other parts of me were dissolving from view. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There were birds outside, and some kind of cricket, and Mary was breathing quietly in her sleep nearby. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be silly,” said Mama quietly, still leaning back with her eyes closed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Marlee,” she said quietly, “come on down. I already bought a Coke and a PayDay. We can share them on the way home.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, once she’d finished quietly dabbing away tears, I would ply her with questions. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We walk quietly throughout the rest of the store. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“And paid for by wizards,” said Bill quietly, and the goblin shot him a look that was both furtive and challenging. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then they quietly move to the opposite side of the herd. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can your eye — I mean, can you — ?” “Yeah, it can see through Invisibility Cloaks,” Moody said quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They were sitting quietly two in a seat, while the other passengers looked on. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

We got out and walked up to the ticket booth, where Mom quietly spoke with the cashier for a minute before buying four tickets to the movie. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose it does any good,” he said quietly, “but I apologize for the bad manners of my people.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly, Narcissa, I shall make the Unbreakable Vow,” he said quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Our relationship is the most important thing to me, nkem,” he said quietly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That night I lay very quietly in my bed, and I heard my father and mother speak of Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silly and I moved as quickly and quietly as we could. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said, very quietly, “Good. Very good. There is no contradiction. But tell me, you have nothing more to say about what I said earlier?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Henry kisses his mouth over and over again and says quietly, “You are good.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Savannah’s only half a day’s walk from here,” Fiona said quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother no longer moderated Dad’s statements after he left the room, no longer quietly gave her own opinion. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the 46th Guards were quietly idling their engines, maybe the cowering soldiers below imagined that the swooping wings sounded eerily like witch’s broomsticks soaring through the dark sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Patrice left, and Mom sat there quietly for a moment, stroking both me and the bonobo. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Pack it all up, dear,” Mrs. Brown says quietly. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“You expect to make it to the earl’s manor in four days?” he asked quietly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stood quietly and listened to her sing along with “You Can't Hurry Love” in her raspy but beautiful voice. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Total control,” said Moody quietly as the spider balled itself up and began to roll over and over. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ask Uriah, as quietly as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m willing to answer his questions if it will clear things up,” Mr. Dalton said quietly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They both sat quietly, as if they were thinking this over. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Dad was downstairs, packing up my lunch and getting ready for work, and I had to tiptoe very quietly toward their room, so he wouldn’t stop me in my tracks and turn me right around. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The car sways, and its wheels click-clack quietly. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They came on without a word, running quietly in their deerskin moccasins. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat there quietly until his breathing returned to normal. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he decided on the basis of his own impression, having seen me in his place so many times, sitting quietly, almost in awe, observing the hustling set. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they stood quietly and listened for a while. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood quietly in front of me for a few moments, then she dropped her hand from my chest and stepped back. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I often sit with one of them in the little beer garden and try to explain to him that this is really the only thing: just to sit quietly, like this. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My...my momma said I was the devil’s child,” she says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s no big deal,” Ivy finally said, quietly. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then she heard him dress quietly and go out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the mornings her mom tried to explode very quietly, so that the people downstairs didn’t get annoyed. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He walked beside me in the night, so quietly I had to peek at him constantly to be sure he was still there. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“This girl,” Aunt Heidi whispers to me, but not quite quietly enough, frankly, “is the reason I stopped acting.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mercy began quietly to make ready her own bed in the comer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere upstairs a door swung quietly shut; a bird touched the tower briefly and flew off. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Suzanne quietly escapes and comes back to stand with me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We were departing quietly, secretly, under a heavy police escort, in the middle of the night, and in less than half an hour we found ourselves at a small military airport outside the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sailor marched us to registration, quietly chanting the phrase Yu-go-slav. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As crews from other nations arrived at Griinau, he and George Pocock were spending a lot of time down by the water, quietly studying the competition. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the pandemonium Gershom Bulkeley quietly reached for the copybook, studied it carefully, and turned a shrewd, deliberative eye upon Kit. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

With these words she turned gracefully and seemed to float out of the room, closing the door quietly behind her. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then he said quietly, 'Something will happen to you. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The soldiers withdrew as quickly and quietly as they had appeared, out of sight in an instant. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth to call the others, but before Polly could speak, Amari stepped quietly out of the darkness of the trees. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, if it was me,” he said quietly, “I’d have done something before now. I wouldn’t be staying in school like a good boy, I’d be out there looking for him.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Some looked at him as they passed, at the man sitting quietly behind the wheel of a small car, with his invisible life ravelled out about him like a wornout sock, and went on. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Ota gave the signal, Raesa and Pol melted into the trees, moving as quietly as they could to avoid startling the deer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As it was, they each sobbed for a while, and then quietly, gently, the little storms died down. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And here he was talking quietly to me and this no doubt the first time he'd tried to tell anyone about it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her back turned to me, her face pressed against the minister’s chest, and was quietly sobbing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons, however, he would quietly slip away, and his lab group had it that a special girl friend existed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Bridge heard him say quietly, “Shoulders. Smile. Sing to the audience.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

As she ate, the man and the nurse talked quietly at another table, and when she had finished, the nurse brought her a glass of warm milk and took the tray away. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Madison was quietly orchestrating the Republican campaign on behalf of Jefferson to succeed Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I cry quietly on the bus after I say goodbye to my family. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It broke out upon the land quietly and wakened Mr. Driscoll where he lay. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when Precious Coins was about to be born and the hospital miles away with bombs falling like hailstones, it was Mother alone who soothed the frantic household and quietly delivered the baby. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you was to do that, we’d tell,” he said quietly. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully set them down as quietly as I could. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I could hold my head up again, I asked Anatole quietly, “Do you think this is the hand of God?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four days ago,” he said, quietly, lying there. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a very deep voice, even when he talked quietly, like he did now. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We blow like we are whispering through our mouthpieces, and the singers sing quietly too. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

They pressed inside the two rooms and sang “This World Is Not My Home” while others quietly shuffled in and out to pay their respects. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Shhh . . . There’s nothing to be sorry about,” she said, so quietly I could barely hear her. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But Jinx slid quietly from his perch and left Shady’s place, letting the door swing shut behind him. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mama sits quietly for a while, and her voice catches when she speaks again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I was mean to you,” he said quietly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Seems sometimes that the old lessons are bein’ lost in the worry of new things happenin’ each day, Ma,” he said quietly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted very much to sit quietly here, soundless, not moving until this thing occurred, this thing expected all day, this thing that could not occur but might. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood under the trellised porch, quietly smoking his pipe, and watched them for a while. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father looked at me, then sighed quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dany rode along quietly for a time, working his words like a puzzle box. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“True,” he said quietly, “I have held a sword once or twice in my day.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Romero's bull-fighting gave real emotion, because he kept the absolute purity of line in his movements and always quietly and calmly let the horns pass him close each time. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

President Smith rubs his forehead and says quietly, “We are desperate for the food.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Johnny guessed that many who were now quietly joining one of those three groups were acting on the spur of the moment, seeing what was up. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry walked down the stairs as quietly as possible, though the faces in some of the portraits still turned curiously at the squeak of a floorboard, the rustle of his pajamas. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before bed, I quietly prayed, “God, I am so sorry for all of this. I know this was not cool.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her husband and children, used to her flares of fury at Izzy, nodded quietly, let her rant. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the reading room was quietly lost in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“You better go home now,” he said quietly. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then quietly they bade each other farewell, and Vetch turned and went down the stone hallway, and left Roke. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He closes the door as quietly as he can. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against the perfect cover of vine and bramble and tangled drift sticks, a little gray brush rabbit sat quietly in the sun, drying his breast fur, wet by the grass dew of his early feeding. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the door he stops, collects himself, and quietly unbolts the door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“A child wouldn’t have known that,” I said quietly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to say that I was sorry,” she says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As I walked quietly out of the room, she took what seemed to be a long, satisfying drag on her cigarette. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Jessica,” he says quietly, “I want to see if I can help them.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Herbalist, who ordinarily tended the sick, sat quietly in a rocking chair. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The men spoke so quietly I couldn’t hear them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then she says quietly, “Why did we stop being friends?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Now he was supposed to be reading quietly while Mr. Habazz helped some other kids with math. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

And I find myself softening toward her, quietly wishing her well. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, we’ll come quietly,” the Savage answered, dabbing alternately a cut lip, a scratched neck, and a bitten left hand. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet even as they fretted and fumed, something else was quietly at work among Ulbrickson’s boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were practically whispering themselves, speaking as quietly as they could under the rain. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Your mum doesn’t read Witch Weekly, by any chance, does she, Ron?” she asked quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I asked quietly, trying not to stare at her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d sit quietly and have his Cinnamon Toast Crunch and consider the day ahead. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“My lovely Amari,” he greeted her quietly in their language, as if hope still shone in their sky. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z