But the silence of the heart between mother and child is not a lonely one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence of the hall the screen indicated nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And when there’s another long silence, I add, “Well, I’ll let you go.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They’d sat in silence until some semblance of reality returned, and then left without a word, not waiting for Chaol to thank them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a silence as all gazed, I supposed, at me. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was lost in a mysterious silence somewhere in Georgia. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started to move away from the group, a fear blossoming in the silence that followed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s mother was cross with her for the rest of the day, making the silence on the trolley ride home more fraught than usual. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly finally asked, for she found that the silence made her even more ill at ease. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They trooped out in silence past him and closed the door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But when she wanted to, Inej had a way of making you feel her silence. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The woman couldn’t see that, or else she ignored it; she waited for absolute silence, and then she began. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were all irritable now with the fading ale and, aware of it, we drove for a while in silence. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But there was still a distance between us, silences in our conversations where there used to be none. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A silence overhauls us, and the voice leaves me completely There’s no more breathing at the other end. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And it was his silence, his long pause while he digested this information, that filled the hallway and my heart and soul with such a great whooshing pressure that I couldn’t breathe. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And he called to her, and she came down, and they walked on the grass or sat under a green tree together, now in silence, now in speech. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Noise and motion gave an illusion of warmth, dispelling that utter, glacial silence, but I was still too cold to sleep that night. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

During the last fifty years the silence of much of the country has been destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t seen how the silence and tension have been smothering us for years. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We sit in silence for a moment as the local radio station plays over the speakers and our feet brush up against each other. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dinner passes the same way it has for months, stretches of silence broken by his mother’s attempts at polite conversation and Caroline’s occasional sighs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of silence, during which Danny and my father stood looking at each other and I stared at the two of them and nothing was said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They’re far enough away that the wind’s covering up his Noise but I’m sure I feel her silence out there. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were a few moments of silence, and then I heard her walk back to her bed and the sound of her mattress taking her weight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there for a moment, staring at her in silence, waiting for her to acknowledge my presence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And so they tramped on through the cold night in silence, Tonks’s long cloak whispering on the ground behind them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lockhart waved an arm for silence and called, “Gather round, gather round! Can everyone see me? Can you all hear me? Excellent! “ Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wait to see a fourth player show his face, but the house falls into a moment of silence. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was glad when Sirius broke the silence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence for the rest of the evening. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This is what Colin thought in the long silence that followed: would he want to know? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I know that’s enough questions, for now, so I let the silence linger between us until he decides to break it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Indeed, cousin, it is too kind of you——” began Mary Poppins, but the Hamadryad held up his hood for silence. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Historians who project large Indian populations, Low Counter critics say, are committing the intellectual sin of arguing from silence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was silence while Bigwig and Holly took in the news. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward silence between them, and Ash looked down at the ground, studying the gradations of brown and the pattern of veins in the fallen leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, for Ford’s sake,” said Lenina, breaking her stubborn silence, “shut up!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I asked him why he wasn’t at our regular spot after school, he’d just mumbled something and looked at his feet, and then we’d walked toward Amsterdam in total silence. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

After an awkward silence, Cole knew he had to say something. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Baba was still shrouded in the same strange silence during breakfast, and this time Neel couldn’t bring himself to try to break it. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later, as we all watch the sun slide down the western edge of the great escarpment, we sit in thoughtful silence. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Told you,” said Ron, looking meaningfully at Sirius, “told you she’s obsessed with house —” But Sirius held up a hand to silence Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Except for the whimpering, there was a silence you not only heard, but one you could see on Mrs.’s face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We let the dramatic orchestra music fill the awkward silence for us. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He walked on in silence for a bit, trying, I guessed, to come to terms with this idea. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lay on my back for perhaps fifteen seconds before the engine growled to silence and I heard Dad’s heavy step. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ugwu continued to slice, in a turgid silence, until Master came home, tennis whites plastered to his back with sweat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sit for a moment, startled by the silence. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Because you needed it,” he said, and his words pulled a silence over them both. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What do you think they’re going to do to us when they find us guilty?” she says after a few minutes of silence have passed. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she would stop and gaze at us in silence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the foot of the ski run, the imitation log cabin lodge piped its popular songs into the overhang of silence. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Our silence is broken by the echo of the dawn drums. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Oakes looked at him in incredulous silence for a moment, then “No!” she burst out impulsively. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses, and in that silence, all I hear is Taryn’s hitched breath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here the sun mellowed, took on the cast of late afternoon, and the shadows seemed to fall a bit longer; the forest had sunk into a deeper silence, magnifying what sounds did arise. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stunned silence in the hall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence for a few moments, their feet crunching in the loose rocks, and then Shackleton added, “What do you think of this place, Skipper?” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But I noticed the silence when the horse stopped outside. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We scrubbed and wiped in blessed silence for nearly a half hour. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That question never failed to reduce Franklin D. Roosevelt to silence touched with awe. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And who’s common now, Florence?” he asked, quietly, in the immediate and awful silence in which she recognized her error. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The two of them, side by side, commanded an undeniable gravity that could silence three hundred scythes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe before the raid, the chill in his eyes would have silenced me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a considerable silence and then the voice said: “Yup.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A short silence falls over our table, broken only by the clang of forks against porcelain, the obnoxious slurping sounds Connor makes as he eats his chow mein. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” she says, “I must be in the wrong room. I’m looking for a group of girls who sit in awkward silence and don’t talk to each other.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The hunger ate away their smiles and silenced their childish laughter. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Sighs of relief and muted conversation replaced tense silence as the image began coming through. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood there in complete silence, side by side, while the incense smouldered into ashes; and then because the sun was sinking, Wang Lung shouldered the box and they went home. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

So that night, as dishes were passed around a silent table, and as the clock on the breakfront chimed the quarter hours, Turner decided he would dare the silence and ask. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

We rest in silence for a while, thoughts caught in each of our imperfect minds. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There is an embarrassed silence in which the words her reputation are as palpable as if someone had hung a wedding dress in the air. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They heard his steps come toward the sculpture, but instead of passing by, they stopped and there was a long silence. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They sat for a long moment in silence while the talk and laughter at the table dipped and soared about them like swallows. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the formation of their union, the shrews stood in slack-jawed silence, completely lost for an answer! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The silence he left was heavy but comfortable, like a well-worn, prickly cardigan on a bitter morning. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and ran, tearing the Mylar shade down and leaving the others inside speechless; even Shay was shocked into silence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The three descend into silence as silverware clinks and scrapes against bone china and beverages slowly disappear from glasses. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Out of the silence, nearby saloons sprang to life, disgorging hundreds of strikers who blocked the roadway, overturning the cart and dragging the driver away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help it.The silence became overpowering, and he longed to hear another human voice. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Basta did not answer, but his silence was more eloquent than any words. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Their voices are silenced, but their memory lives in us, no? Something lives far below the surface—the essence of you. That is what remains." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My father filled in the silence my lack of verbal response had created. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I walked over to him and started working on the glasses, and we stepped through the kitchen in silence, with nothing but the sound of clinking dishware. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence at the thought of that, feeling suddenly peaceful and happy. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an awed silence as the odor of freshly ground coffee permeated the theater. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all quiet for a while, and then Talloi broke the silence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looked back out the window, and we sat in silence a long time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

All at once—there, at that last moment, no sooner—I realized what my selfishness and Estraven’s silence had kept from me, where he was going and what he was getting into. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was counting the strokes, and as the sixth one hit me, I knew I was going to survive in silence. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t have to worry about that silence, that heavy, lasting silence that has been following us around since long before she left me in my room with the lights off. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Who you writing to?” he asked, as oppressed suddenly by the silence as he had been by her talk. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The audience all opened their mouths wide for laughter, and stopped short in gaping silence; for the singer disappeared. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I got lost in the thought of snow, and we walked the rest of the way in silence. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Trefusis and I sate awkwardly in silence, the pretense of tuition abandoned; knowing that the coming lesson would be but a simulation of learning; and being unwilling to begin this pretense without an audience. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Okay, then fine. I'm gonna run the meter. If you gonna make me drive you home in silence, I might as well get paid for it." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The signs he recognized from his own marriage were there — the bickering, the indifference, the protracted silences. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A master sergeant had once reported to him that the rumor of his coming had silenced a mess hall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed at Piggys expecting him to retire meekly as usual and in pained silence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most unwillingly they went and stood before the hero in heavy silence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They go back to eating, and the next ten minutes are filled with awkward silence. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In the darkness and the silence he could see bits of light that appeared random on the night grid. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

No one stared up at the first sergeant, yet there was complete silence as he spoke. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had listened through the wall and heard nothing, the stagnant silence of our unhappy house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She feared for her lord father, and wondered at his ominous silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With all the silence around us, I wondered for a moment if they had been the Angel family’s entire life force. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I prompted gently, worried that the silence would soon become uncomfortable. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of entire silence between them, John Knightley began with— Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Where he had been would be silence only, rock, stubble, and no seed; for him, forever, and for his, no hope of glory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“But you didn’t go to an island,” said the Savage, breaking a long silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s gaze lingered on me, taking in my silence. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Silence on the bus, and silence walking three blocks from the bus to the downtown office building. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The unbalanced sea would overwhelm the islands where we perilously dwell, and in the old silence all voices and all names would be lost.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can smell her breath, which is worse than the rag, and I feel the silence behind all these words. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We ate the food in near silence, the Korean family way, bent over the steaming crocks and dishes like scribing monks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a single moment of agonizing silence before the once-dead store lights surged into brightness. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

An unearthly screech shattered the silence, followed by a rush of wings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We stand and look at them in silence. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the deep silence of the deserted street around me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A deathly silence became the music that reverberated throughout. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From that day on we worked in silence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence rattled between us and I felt sorry for the reprimand that grew from me to him in the silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the last note, I listen to the silence. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

An easy silence fell, and Jam wondered what to do next. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And then, after a moment of silence: “Wait... I do remember. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But whenever a Negro approached the front to get off, the driver’s silence fairly roared. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I hear the scratching of Marguerite’s pen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Buford felt nothing for a moment, a sort of sodden silence all through his brain, then the anger began to rise like a metal wave, like a hot tide in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They played the third round in deadly silence, racing through the final lap as competitively as if they were in the Indianapolis 500. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Emily and James sat in disappointed silence as they rode the bus back to their building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, the man asked Shin if he wanted to go to South Korea—a question that made Shin even more anxious. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

What nobody tells you is that miscarriage happens all the time, to more women than you’d ever guess, given the relative silence around it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He trotted past where I stood beneath the tree, his bare feet slapping the walk in the silence, going for a few feet and then the high, hallucinated cry beginning again. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They unwound more of the toilet paper in silence. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Thomas gestured for silence with his finger to his mouth. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After about half a minute, the silence gets awkward. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They sat like that, in perfect silence, until whatever magic had filled the air seemed to dissipate and the dying fire turned to glowing orange embers in the dirt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We sat in soothing silence, listening to the leaden tick of the hallway clock and the barking of a nearby dog. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We fall into a peaceful silence on the highway. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His silence seemed like collusion in his fate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But now all the land was empty, and there was a silence that did not seem to be the quiet of peace. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

With a scornful snicker, he settled himself behind his desk, replaced the empty cigarette holder in his mouth and lapsed into parturient silence for a few moments. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Marcus sighed heavily into the phone, and then there was silence for a few moments. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was better than her usual sullen silence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a moment’s silence, he added: “Each of us will be allowed to bring his personal belongings. A backpack, some food, a few items of clothing. Nothing else.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trina once watched her father strangle her pet dog into silence because it wouldn't stop barking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Everything you been working on, Titid,” says Marcel, in a sudden silence. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Voldemort raised his hand to silence her, and she did not speak another word, but eyed him in worshipful fascination. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We slurp our soup in silence until the busboy brings our dinners. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, he sat down, dropped his glasses off his nose, and looked out at the young faces who stared back in silence. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We run along in silence for a bit. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the silence that follows, delicious smells of our dinner waft in from the dining room. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then a few seconds tick by in silence. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then there had been the silence that always followed any compromising mention of the regime in public. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence, waiting to see what would happen. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When die sound of his hooves had faded away to silence, she began to shout. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They made the rest of the descent in silence. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of silence, I worked my way back down the path, picked up my bike, and darted behind the houses to another path and made my way home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All around me the Amity sit in silence, some with their eyes closed, some with their lips mouthing words I can’t hear, some staring at a point far away. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The shock on Moody’s face, his stunned silence, told her everything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next second of silence that passed was deafening, only because I knew exactly what he would say next. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You can, or at least I can, get a read on the audience. We were bringing something they hadn’t seen before. When I did that, I heard some gasps, then it was dead silence.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There is a silence in the room and then a babble of ad lib conversation. 9TH JUROR: Please. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they were aware that everything was very quiet; the whole forest stood in listening silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At first he looked a little uncomfortable, but after a few seconds of silence he said calmly, “You can go home if you’re sure you’ll study.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the deafening silence of everybody you know forgetting your name. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We stood in silence as Cliff kicked at the dirt with his toe. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Clara would smile without saying a word and Nivea would go on talking because she had grown used to her daughter’s silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Viola’s next to me and as I slurp away, there’s her silence again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Soon they too drifted from his mind, leaving only silence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the tumult died away, and an expectant silence covered the crowd. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The sudden silence around me is the kind that makes me lift my head without thinking. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The awkward silence that followed was mercifully broken by Piper, tugging on Maniac’s arm: “Where’s my birthday present? Wha’d you get me?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence in the hall then, a silence broken by a strange heaving noise. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the minutes stretched into an eternity in which silence reigned over all. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Again I was being shut out of the secret, the thing, the reality I felt somewhere beneath all the words and silences. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a heavy snow on the weekend that blanketed the block in a crisp white silence. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Bunny’s dark room and of the ravine, miles away; of all those layers of silence on silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They trudged all day, the boy in silence. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She just nodded her head and ate her supper in silence and helped with the dishes, and when the little children went up to bed she went with them. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment we just stared at the Taurus in silence. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The chaplain weighed the next silence heavily and then shattered it with an abrupt question. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

More silence, except for birds twittering and a dog barking somewhere. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They continued in silence for a while and then Rachael poked about, found the car’s radio and switched it on. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I sat in silence wondering if I could ever redeem myself in the eyes of the Lord. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was such a calming silence; it made me relax and feel closer to him than any heart-to-heart would have. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newt looked completely baffled and finally broke the silence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The men worked in silence now, like moles deep in the earth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to lie, but the lawyer wouldn’t let me think, so I used silence as a retreat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In silence, she and Mama whisked by mud-brick huts crammed along the Night Zoos edge; other beastkeepers were getting ready too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence for a long time before I asked, “Did ... do you ever blame your mother for all this?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the silence, given time to think, Winnie felt her elation, and her thoughtless pleasure, wobble and collapse. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before she can finish each one, we are told “the morning overtook Scheherazade, who lapsed into silence,” leaving the king burning to hear the rest. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Out of the surrounding silence and darkness came the quiet ringing of a distant church bell, thin, faint, but clear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stunned silence was followed by shrieks and cries from the crowd. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The silence lasted for a long minute as Edward and Alice stared each other down. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, she resumed, still whispering— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mentioning the war is a quick way to silence my house. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

But now that the train was gone, there was a powerful silence that settled along the tracks in the moments before the songbirds picked up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I listened to the rustle of his thick robes as he walked down the hall in the tremendous silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat there, weeping in silence, and no one said anything. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence, while my father sipped from his glass. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the silence gets too long and too loud, so I try to think of something to say. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There are stretches amounting to many minutes when all three of our trainers wander off, leaving us to sit there in silence or take the opportunity to squirm. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint fragrance of incense drifted to me in the deep silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked home in silence, I could, for the first time, see the sadness on her face and how disappointed she was in herself. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I feel a deep silence grow inside me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence, feeling the heat suck away every bit of their energy. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“There’s a code of silence surrounding issues related to individuals’ earnings,” she told me. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there he sat in silence while I waited anxiously for him to tell me what to do. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bound by strong vows that had never been pronounced, obedient to laws that had long since ceased to run, he sat averted and in silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished the day in a silence as sullen as that of the other apprentice, Nebre, whose stony indifference to men and work alike he was beginning to understand very well indeed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A silence followed for a minute or so. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

We’d been walking in silence, side by side, heading in no particular direction. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the long silence, I realized he would not be offering me any simple answers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Pattie is watching me so I nod and try to look like I'm listening to more than silence. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The crowd screamed insults at me, but Antaeus raised his hand for silence. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

A silence came on them as they rode in under the oaks, a silence they took from the place itself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but darkness and sheets of rain and the awe of our silence. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

After the silence, Patrick did his best to salvage the evening. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Secrecy in Karhide is to an extraordinary extent a matter of discretion, of an agreed, understood silence—an omission of questions, yet not an omission of answers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The deep baying of Old Dan stopped and again the silence dosed in. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in silence, watching his face while his blazing eyes stared straight ahead, until the car came to a sudden stop. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few minutes pass, the track rhythm sounding less waltz than clock, ticking out agonizing seconds of silence. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the few words in my mother's mouth become the missing after Odell dies—a different silence than either of them has ever known. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The silence seemed strained and expectant, like a young boy waiting for a firecracker to explode. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they all looked at him, and the silence was so strong that he had to speak. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stared at me in silence; evidently he did not believe me, for he took a step forward to test me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even through her silence, and his confused bitterness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He turned away and caught Ron’s eye instead, exchanging in silence a look that confirmed what Ginny had said. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then, when they were alone, they ate almost in complete silence. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another long silence while the house creaked and popped around them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

‘Stop that talking!' shouted the Deputy Head. ‘I want absolute silence!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence that followed, Olanna heard quick footfalls on the corridor outside. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my dull, lanky hair, happy in his silence yet eager for his words. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The word dropped like a stone into the silence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After a few moments of silence, all eyes turned to Teddy. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was an awful silence, and then Mama said, ‘Hush! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The snap of a metal lid cracked the silence, and then the patter of fading footsteps. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

No one said anything, and even though I thought I had gotten quite used to silence, this one had a peculiar ache. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a lot of silence around the table. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought that it would do him good to know how it felt to be the recipient rather than the giver of silence. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We sat like that for half an hour, in silence, listening to the voices from the edge of the dark. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were fourteen students in the class, and each one of us, with the exception of Danny, sooner or later tasted that silence personally. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And on they walked, trudging in silence under a sky that had finally darkened to a dull iron gray and remained there without getting any darker. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now that the saw had ceased to whine, the silence seemed immense and wonderful. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing in the face of this and he turned toward her silence to see what it might mean. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the evening of that day Vetch spoke out of long silence. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lady bared her teeth and began to growl, a low rumble full of menace, but this time Sansa silenced the wolf with a gentle hand to the head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Felicia hung her head and withdrew into silence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brief silence that followed the song, Shirley suddenly realized that her moment would soon come. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was half across the lawn, coming from the shadows, moving with such drifting ease that it was like a single solid cloud of black-grey smoke blown at him in silence. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s a long silence while people pretend to eat. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From the safety of her hiding spot, Taylor gasped and immediately put a hand to her mouth to silence herself. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had shouted into silence and only silence answered—and yet, when he cried, his cry had caused a ringing to the outermost limits of the earth. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She could not remember anything, but asked what she had said; when she was told, she pondered over it deeply for a long time and in silence. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The main library was like an old-world cathedral, with high ceilings and glossy hardwood tables where we could lay out our textbooks and study in silence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was a bubbling noise, and then silence. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I nodded in silence, avoiding even a whisper. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the aroma of springtime, and if it weren’t for the overwhelming silence, it would’ve been peaceful. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We’d been told over and over that silence was the only way to move out here, the only way to stay alive. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The noise of his voice had startled everything and it was quiet He looked around, listened with his mouth open, and realized that in all his life he had never heard silence before. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In silence they all turned to watch her enter. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced around for a minute or so in silence. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made it to almost five months before she woke at two a.m. with a terrible stillness in her belly, like the silence after a bell has stopped ringing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Volleyball players stopped their game and stared in stunned silence at the sky. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I said I always tell the truth. I did not say I always tell. Secrets are the best truths, and silence is always an option.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He started up the car and we drove home in silence. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At the moment silence was more dramatic than anything she could say. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chubs nodded; we watched Liam go in silence, then Chubs turned to me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The alarm beeped its insistent warning, and I silenced it with Jesse’s birthday. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They walked along the street in silence for a while. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jorah Mormont accepted his collar in a sullen silence, but Penny began to cry as the armorer was fastening her own into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even if he did silence the song in her. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s what you imagine I might be like when I’m not telling you a story, but we’re sitting together in silence. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at our group and put a finger to his lips, demanding silence. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Later still, the whispers faltered, and there was silence in the darkness of the room. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment's silence he said very quietly: "So you did drown that kid after all?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When he finished speaking, silence fell upon the company. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence had drawn out for so long that I couldn’t remember what she’d asked me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Into the silence Cecilia said, as if there were nothing between her and her sister, “He sleeps so deeply. I didn’t want to wake him.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Eventually the white coat woman broke the silence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A rumble of protest from the horde was silenced by a crack from Cluny’s tail. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He remembered how she had stood in silence while Moss wailed in anger and grief, dropping to the cold concrete. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a short silence Mong said: “I wanted to ask you something too.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The pupils filed obediently down the aisles and dropped into their seats, and in a moment there was silence in the classroom. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Franz studies them in silence, occasionally nodding when I explain what they depict; he seems grateful to see them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know yet how the emails got out, so it’s radio silence until we find the leak.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And this weight began to move at the bottom of John’s mind, in a silence like the silence of the void before creation, and he began to feel a terror he had never felt before. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Our trombone sounds are in sync, and after we make it all the way through “A Song of Peace,” I relax into the silence that follows the last note. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

After three days of sullen looks and stubborn silence, everything was back to normal. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With the evening the air was so full of their song that it was a kind of roaring silence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The bad news was that he seemed to have sunk deeper into his silence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the previous decade, the government had silenced most of the radical press, and there remained a prohibition on publishing the words or pictures of any banned or imprisoned individuals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, and we stand in awkward silence. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We stood in silence for a few minutes, weapons still pointed at our prisoners. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The Guard exits and in the silence the sound is heard of the door being locked. 5TH juror: I never knew they locked the door. 10TH JUROR: Sure they lock the door. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was shattered as the bedroom door flew open with a wall-shaking crash. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Fell down some stairs,” he said brusquely, and ate his doughnuts in silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The three of them stood there in silence. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was ringed by thick walls of silence which hissed in her ears, rising and falling in volume to some pattern of its own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The moment wavered in tremulous silence, blinding, null, and numb. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had not only broken my silence, I was almost screaming. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course, Mrs. Danvers,” but I knew this was not what she had meant to say, and silence fell between us once again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

That was his answer, and that was the first word he had spoken after three weeks of silence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The acoustics in the Assembly Room were so poor that silences there had a heavy hum of their own. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then another of the slaves, squatted by the fire, broke the silence. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the rest of the ride was silence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The two of us both sat for a while in silence after I finished reading the letter aloud. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It reminded me of home. In England the boys used to light bonfires and march through the streets — ” “Such things are best not mentioned,” her husband silenced her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But he brought himself here, to this walk, in the open and the silence, to clear his head and ponder the question. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The silence came, lowering itself on him as if a curtain had been drawn. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

W'e walk the main street in silence, past Lilies, past All Flesh. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought that Branwell was looking a little better, but the good news about Nikki didn’t do a thing to break his silence. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rigidness of her shocked body, the silence of her stunned throat, was better than Pauline’s easy laughter had been. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped to hell I didn't look as insanely nervous as I felt, but nobody said anything, until Jules broke the silence. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They waited in silence, until the sound of scrambling feet came across the rocks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

On the sidewalk, a crowd watched in silence. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The rats waited in complete silence while she sat down. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope the Changing doesn’t give us real memories—just plants fake ones. Some suspect it—I can only hope. If the world’s the way I saw it . . .” He trailed off, leaving an ominous silence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On weekends Nicholas walked around the house in a tense cloud of silence, nursing his worries. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All lay in uneasy silence, putting me in mind of the abandoned village where I had first met Bear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute of silence, the message played again. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham was already awake and his hand silenced the alarm almost as soon as it began. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the absolute silence that followed Roy’s words, John saw that his father was not seeing him, was not seeing anything unless it were a vision. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The very dust and silence in here seemed to tingle with some secret magic. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They waited in silence, the emperor’s figure getting smaller and smaller as he walked away, the snow slowly veiling him from view. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We hike up the narrow path in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In silence Doctor Copeland shook hands again with each of them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But to get back to the subject of raising children, yesterday a silence fell after Mrs. van D. finished her little speech. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

However, after a few seconds of silence, I decided that was the only answer I was going to get. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

M. Yoshoto leaned his newspaper against my water glass, and the three of us ate in silence; that is, they ate and I systematically swallowed in silence. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The shots were followed by a few minutes of muffled shouting and screaming, then silence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They proceeded in silence for a few hundred yards. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

‘Master, dear master!’ said Sam, and through a long silence waited, listening in vain. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

When he was through, there was an awkward silence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said when the silence got too heavy. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They work in silence for a while, and then Frank stops and tips his white cap back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We leave downtown Los Angeles behind and travel up the winding highway in silence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The three of us stood in the road in an awkward silence. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I shook my head again, and then joined the silence. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

We eat in silence, watching the street and letting the sunshine warm us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Unsmiling, ever watchful, my teachers noted my silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I had had my say about the dogs, a silence settled over the dining room. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his heart spoke to him, it was to provide a stimulus to the boy, and to give him strength, because the days of silence there in the desert were wearisome. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in silence awhile, watching the lights lean past. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence—because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The first voice let loose a brief grumble, and silence reigned again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the silence of that barren country they fancied that they heard faint sounds behind them, a stone falling, or the imagined step of flapping feet on the rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I twisted the key and the pistons coughed, then stopped, but she instantly filled the silence. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They sat there in silence finishing up their second tallboys, moving into thirds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for the engine noise and Naomi’s shouted directions, there was utter silence. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If she took a breath, the sound would shatter the silence. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence, broken only by your labored breaths and the rainstorm lashing the banyan’s branches. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Ashish snorted from behind the camera, but Dimple silenced him with a glare. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We briefly stood in silence before he began to speak again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When I could think of nothing to fill the silence, Richardson continued: "Mr. Stevenson, I have thirty days. Please say you'll help me." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He heard the dull rushing sound that space and silence make. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove in silence for a few moments. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He sat in a chair between his political advisers and, wrapped in his woolen blanket, he listened in silence to the brief proposals of the emissaries. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For long moments, they ate in silence, his lordship in particular seeming very far away. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Durham industrialists were quick to silence any opposition to their policies, whether it came from inside or outside of the mills. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even farther in, the silence was broken by a cacophony of strange sounds—the skittering of rats; hissing steam; the hollow, recurring tap of pipes, like the desperate scratching of a premature burial. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he asked me, I couldn’t answer and neither could he, but when I left him that first Friday of his long silence, I thought that Branwell could answer it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crouched in silence while the moon shadows moved northward in the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I started talking again to fill in the silence. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved being in the library, the almost sacred silence you could find there, the way it felt like another home. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That confidence enabled me, several months later, to overcome my fear of the silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at the mess for a minute in silence. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"I'll be reciting the prayers for Baba," I say, shocking the entire room into silence. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The silence hangs between us, empty of all things good. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the other girls grumbled that their piece rates had dropped so that it had hardly been worth slaving through the summer heat, she kept her silence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Hiskey was sorry he told me about this,” Franklin reported, “and swore me to silence.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate in silence as the light crept steadily over the smooth, oily sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, in a shocked silence, the column of the dead began their journey along the edge of the abyss. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I celebrate every order of silence borne of the tongue and the heart and the mind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The screen door slammed, followed by a huge bucketful of silence. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In the silence my mother’s voice was like a flute. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly five decades later, the clock—in unmoving silence— tells the story to worshipers and to pilgrims who walk through the church doors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was no applause, only the appreciation of a profound silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the silence covered all of us like mist. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“OK” We all picked at the pizza in silence, and then we all reacted to the same disturbing sound. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fed in silence with an occasional sound of inner suffocation and blind searching. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other three of us look at our food in silence, until Ren takes the stage. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t bother to ask again, and we rode the rest of the way in silence. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“You dislike an argument, and want to silence this.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The silence that followed his outburst had a fungus quality to it, as though it were breeding malignancies, and I had the uncanny feeling that I had somehow been stripped naked and violated. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They sat in an uneasy silence, the tinkle of silverware and the indecipherable hubbub from the surrounding tables the only sounds. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a bit of silence, he said, “Hassan is sick. He has a sinus infection.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We sit in excruciating silence for nearly half a minute. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I am by profession an artist’s model,” Eleanor said quickly, to silence her own thoughts. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the second time that day, Thomas was shocked into silence. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When he was done, they rode in silence for a time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And so they simply stood looking down at Carl’s corpse, a thing that had silenced both of them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya raised the picture to eye level and stared in silence. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He stepped out to close the shop door, which didn’t totally silence the noise but did make it bearable. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Warders walked among us to enforce the silence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exhausted silence they waited as the pencil woman flipped through the tests. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of footsteps broke the silence and her concentration. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence of the long drive was broken only by an occasional observation from Meaghan. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment of silence the Chancellor called for the vote. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Tell another story, Mother, one with a moral to it, like this. I like to think about them afterward, if they are real and not too preachy,” said Jo, after a minute’s silence. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The halls were lined with Underlanders who watched them pass in silence and then broke into whispers. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tittering from the class, but mostly awkward silence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After dinner, the children drifted off to their rooms with their poker faces congealed and their imposed vow of silence unbroken. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lay there in silence for another minute. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t need to take care of anything or anybody, and the silence was as blessed to me as the deepest kind of sleep could have been. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. “ The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lapsed into silence, Wilson comparing his pipe clouds, Alfred slouching in the porch chair. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amidst the dry silence and shadowiness that had come over the world, he even kept a voice and some solidity. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

King began his speech, “Beyond Vietnam,” by acknowledging he was moved to “break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of silence before the ground started shaking again. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was shouting wildly, desperately, shouting at Bod to call the thing off, to save him, please, please...and then the man’s face was pulled through the wall, and the voice was silenced. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But when that didn’t make any difference, and there was nothing but a bad silence on the phone, I really knew it was too late. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when I swore her to silence, I knew she would be silent. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers left in silence, but their words remained loud in Pinmei’s ears. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The sharp cries of jays and mockingbirds filled the silence between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The arguments over Bailey’s future began early and occur frequently, though at this point they often devolve into repetitive phrases and tense silences. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Brother Louis, after trying two or three times to make conversation, gave up and led her in silence to the President’s rooms in the tower. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Clement resisted all these efforts to silence him, and he was stung by Ann’s charges. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had to preoccupy myself with something, anything, to silence the voice in my head. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Calder and Petra walked in silence, on either side of the sausage, to where Ms. Hussey was talking with a group of their classmates. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward silence, in which nobody dared to help their speech along. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was anxious to defend himself and almost broke his silence for the first time—but before he could get a word in, Gaily was talking again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In some ways, my silence was more telling than anything else. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would talk, but mostly we existed in a kind of companionable silence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded faraway, like the last echo before silence redescends. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then there was silence in the station, the eyes of the white men all watching. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Finally, silence fell as the huge animals left the water and went foraging for grass. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of Jackson and the things he used to smuggle me makes me think of my mother—the silence from the postmaster every time Jackson came calling, or so I thought. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Those who beheld it were bound by a vow of silence and they kept it so well that we know only stray bits of what was done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a bit of a tense silence, he inquired about my health, told me what he’d done while I was ill, and said nothing about what had just happened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A day in jail is mostly silence punctuated by passing guards shouting profanities at you, doing roll call. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I studied them closely until they left the train, their shoulders rocking, their heavy heel plates clicking remote, cryptic messages in the brief silence of the train's stop. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some minutes passed in this unpleasant silence, with only one attempt on Emma’s side to talk of the weather, but he made no answer. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

We cross an intersection where everyone’s honking and yelling and cussing, but somehow Ben’s silence is the loudest sound of all. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

That radio silence was full of imagined monsters, like a broad empty space on a map. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like being talked down to that way, and judging from Emma’s knitted brow, she didn’t, either—but to have said so would’ve been unthinkably rude, so we finished our climb in awkward silence. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want anyone else to try to help,” Harry said loudly, and in the total silence his voice carried like a trumpet call. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The English invaded to silence these questions, and they were sure they would easily win—after all, their army and navy were the best in the world, and they were fighting against mere ex-slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Van Helsing did not seem to notice my silence; at any rate, he showed neither chagrin nor triumph. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Except this didn’t have anything to do with honor or courage, just silence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The jubilatory sounds died away to an eerie silence as the rats toiled raggedly off down the road, raising a column of dust in the early dawn. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

We didn't speak, but sat there, in a dose, sisterly silence, until the gong for supper sounded down the hall "Lie down," the nurse said. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Though they are home they are disconcerted by the space, by the uncompromising silence that surrounds them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we sit side by side, staring at the water, in silence. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We watch in silence as the tree crashes piece by piece to the damp ground. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We rode for about two hours in an uncomfortable silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All about them was silence, an eerie, dead silence. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There was a brief silence, and then the judge asked him if he was sure I was the man he had just been speaking of. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But after that, we lapse back into silence. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The vibrations rolled and quivered in the icy silence. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You won’t need this piece of information for a while,” Manet said quietly after a long period of silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He scribbled one night, “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Viscount Morley.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood staring at us for a second in total silence, red in the face and sweaty, maybe feeling as wiped out as I was. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They were met with stony silence, or sometimes even jokes and laughter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence, looking at the floor. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone into the grocery store where he usually trades and heard the sudden silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only trucks are allowed to operate, to relocate people and carry weapons to silence any voices of dissent against the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She finally made herself admit the fact that it was her own letter that had driven Courtney to get in touch with her mother after a silence of thirteen years. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There was no answer, unless it were an utter silence more dreadful than the whispers before; and then a chill blast came in which the torches flickered and went out, and could not be rekindled. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The grim news was digested in silence by the assembled creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I watch Ren in silence as we finish dinner and drift off to our rooms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As the last strident strains of the latter song faded away, there was a moment of silence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then we stand there in silence, but for the first time the silence that lingers between us feels a little more natural. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The thought of Father off visiting someone in the Jewish Hospital and completely unaware of what was happening, the long wait for Mother, the heat, the suspense—all this reduced us to silence. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In silence, they rode the rest of the way down to Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“He took off,” a voice says from behind me, immediately silencing all music, all chatter, the wind and the sea. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was the stillness that had always frightened him before, but this time it was like the moment after Miss Edmunds finished a song, just after the chords hummed down to silence. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

They walked back home in silence, but just before he shut the gate, Moss looked back at the market. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You are finished here,” Mr. Das said, breaking the silence. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I just wondered,” Judith responded, and as Matthew Wood turned a stem look back at them, both girls walked on in silence. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

This was a place of deep silence and brooding shadows, and the gods who lived here had no names. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I heard only silence for a moment; then Aech began to laugh. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

So different from the silence that weighs on Blackcliff like a death shroud. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I had finished, he kept staring down at the floor in deep thought I could hear the sobbing of my mother in the silence. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened in silence, not seeming at all surprised that his father somehow had learned of his secret visits to the library. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The wind swept against the windowpane and the building, whining, then whispered out into silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I move in a silence of clear white light. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence at this again, the silver silence which he had begun to fear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny goggled in thunderstruck silence at the audacious Basil, who merely scowled in mock censure. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long while there was no silence in the Waystone Inn. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I also didn’t want to destroy the silence that had returned after the ambulances wailing died down. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence for a few steps, and then he says, “You’re amazing!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there are no clues at all about what she was doing—the equivalent of radio silence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But in the morning a deep silence hung over the farmhouse. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It was dawn but not yet day when Thor, hungrier, angrier, and still sleepless, resolved to strike one final blow that would silence the snoring forever. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Kote was leafing idly through a book, trying to ignore the silence of the empty inn, when the door opened and Graham backed into the room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the ensuing silence the mother heard the drone of a distant lawnmower. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The man was stunned into silence, motionless as he stared at Jed. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled the raft in silence for another few seconds, then sighed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

That was the worst forty-five minutes of our lives, sitting in silence and regret. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She stopped right in the middle of the song, and I was left in the silence with my hand stretched out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That my silence has been brought on by emotional trauma. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They had dinner in silence the first night. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But he felt the beautiful absence of a commander, a silence above him, a windy freedom. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate their supper in silence, huddled beneath oilskins as the rain dripped down, hissing, into the fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered the British Museum, a year in the silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, each man is silenced by the hammer. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their silence and the innkeeper’s tone made it clear that whoever was upstairs was not one of the many who had been there, it was the one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was silence and then the squeaking sound of the front door being opened and banged shut. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Is love this safety I feel in our silences? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She hides her knowledge well....The silence went on, everybody afraid to speak, thoughts crisscrossing in the overfull air, eyes averted, shifting, lowered at last to the ground. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They heard footsteps, the soft cursing of the executioner, the snap of the door, and then silence once more. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because they had fallen into that angry silence, they walked quietly enough to come upon One Horn, the magnificent buck deer who had lost half of his antler rack defending his island territory. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Washington said nothing whatsoever about slavery in his Farewell Address, sustaining the silence that the Congress had adopted as its official posture early in his presidency. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“For a word to be spoken,” Ged answered slowly, “there must be silence. Before, and after.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing but silence and the swish of the evening breeze. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

In the lethal silence that followed, both brothers glaring at each other, Dimple’s phone blared to life. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Abnegation react to death with silence and service, not words. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was six in the morning and he’d been driving in silence for most of the night, piloting our station wagon through Arizona, Nevada and Utah. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He started up the car, and we drove home in silence that was, for a change, somewhat comfortable. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I imagined the silence of the hall when I struck the last chord; my bow wavering in silence; and me standing alone before the faces of a mob unimpressed by my exertions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They looked at the plain blunt stubborn face and saw nothing but dull Dutch eyes, the great darkness, the silence. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the three of us sat in silence, watching the sun sink behind the mountain and the lightning bugs twinkle off and on among the pine trees. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Suppressed laughter from the pews, a few old ladies gasping in horror, then silence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For him, silence was a precise instrument for gauging respect. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drive the rest of the way to Corly Wood in silence. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by her, however, for some minutes, in silence; and, at last, on the young lady’s whispering to Elizabeth again, he walked away. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, Rodney leading the way, through little backstreets hardly penetrated by the sun, the pavements so narrow we often had to shuffle along in single file. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then there was a great noise, followed by silence, and the sound of Lady Isobel sobbing. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one who ended the silence. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was as if the ringing in my ears was so loud that noise became silence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And Joon would glare in silence as she had the night before, chin tilted up, nose in the air. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Harry had not expected Hermione’s anger to abate overnight, and was therefore unsurprised that she communicated mainly by dirty looks and pointed silences the next morning. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I loathed that song with every fiber of my being, and getting up was the only way to silence it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And with that word she held them with her eyes, and in silence looked searchingly at each of them in turn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lanning leaned back in his seat, and there was the rapt silence of challenge and response between them, and then the old roboticist shook his head. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Cullivan was silent, and his silence upset Perry, who seemed to interpret it as implying disapproval. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other person I have ever sat alone with in the dark is Erin, and since I always want to kiss her, I never get to just enjoy the quiet shared silence. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard them whispering and laughing, then silence again. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her sympathy for the baby and for all of the Takamis began to slip as sleep evaded her, and she secretly began to wish for the baby’s death if such a thing could mean silence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Other pieces may even dispense with the idea that music has to consist of notes; compositions may be collections of sounds and silences. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

An awkward silence follows as I stand there. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I disappeared into my room the minute the air tensed and wrapped myself in a thin sheet that didn’t silence their insults but made me invisible to the hate that clouded their eyes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the silence was profound, with the insect scrapings only scratching at the surface of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes they stand in silence. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the midst of a long silence, Will asked our mess whether; if we win, the slaves down in the Sugar Isles going be freed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And suddenly he saw the truth: It was Perry he ought to have silenced. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while he tried to speak to her, but she would only clutch tighter to her broom and sweep furiously in silence, so instead he took to talking to the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madge finally hears my silence and slips into a seat and stares out the window. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As dusk fell, they waited in a friendly and uncomplicated silence, though there was plenty they could have talked about. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There followed a rather long and embarrassing silence. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She left the room and there was silence. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence of the place, its brooding oppression, makes me want to scream. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the sun caressed his face as they followed Professor McGonagall in silence to the place where hundreds of chairs had been set out in rows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We pause some distance away from the bus and stare at it for a while in silence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he felt himself move, in the silence. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We all sit in silence until Adelita tells us to hold hands for the closing prayer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This house has seen a whole lot of quiet in the past months, but tonight, the silence is different. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Emma put her hand over her mouth to silence her breathing. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We take a few more bites in silence. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They stared at the letter in silence until the light from Matthew’s phone snapped off. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I watched in silence as an older soldier walked by and started to untie him, stopping only when the teenager who had given Otto the beer complained loudly. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I think I’ve found the right place,” said Mo into the silence. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She pauses after she says it, like that will help me to feel the weight of it, but I don’t need time or silence or space to believe her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence, William’s mouth working, but no sound coming out. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, young Creighton, is yore pa in town with you today?” the first speaker asked casually after a short silence. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ancient joints crack loudly in the awkward silence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas those around me might grow up to be lawyers or movie stars, my only option was to take a vow of silence and become a monk. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We sat in total awkward silence the whole way. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was a boatswain’s whistle, and in silence one group boarded the Dartmouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was very bright and still, and there was a silence, except for the high distant song of larks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The two of us sit in silence, both of us knowing I may never say that about her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The silence ended during the early months of John F. Kennedy’s presidential term. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They worked a while in silence before Floss spoke again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another brief silence, during which I finally worked up the courage to speak to Morrow directly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Abuela’s lips curled into a smirk and finally broke the silence. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“If he wants to be the man of the house, he’s going to have to stop biting his nails,” Mami says, breaking the tense silence that follows such remarks. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We all looked in silence at Mrs. Wilson who removed a strand of hair from over her eyes and looked back at us with a brilliant smile. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They, however, asked little of him, holding him in awe, partly because he was a wizard from the Isle of the Wise, and partly on account of his silence and his scarred face. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a longer silence, long enough to make me open my eyes again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Not the ordinary silence that came from a simple absence of things moving about and making noise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My silence was thickest—total—during the three years that I covered my school paintings with black paint. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a thunderous silence, and then Poe laughs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes of silence, the last reporter left. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the slightly awkward silence that ensued, Miss Kenton turned her gaze down into the depths of her cocoa cup as if she had become engrossed by something she had noticed there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lawyers walked past the crowd, up the steps, between the majestic white columns—and into the sudden silence of the courthouse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All three of us sat at the kitchen table in silence and listened to music. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mariya Smirnova, the squadron commander, noticed the silence and reasoned—correctly—that the only reason the antiaircraft guns would stop firing was because there must be German night fighter aircraft patrolling the sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Kiowa always took along his New Testament and a pair of moccasins for silence. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darius finally asks after ten minutes of driving in silence down a highway. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now she held up her hand, imperiously, and silenced Hagar’s whines. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence irked Bigger; he was anxious to do something to evade looking so squarely at this problem. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He smoked in silence, thinking of nothing, and listening to the sound of the wind that brought the scent of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afternoons and weekends, which usually rang with a medley of shouts and laughter and pounding feet, dragged by in a strange, uneasy silence broken only by the dull hum of traffic. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence that falls between them is a comfortable one. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The unanswered questions, the blank stares, the silence, it was all too painful. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence and the silence of winter lay on all the land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

After clearing the table and loading the dishwasher, the kids headed upstairs as the brownstone creaked mournfully in the silence. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her words were hardly out—and the song had not yet finished—when there was a loud pop and a sudden silence. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Along River Street a harsh silence prevailed as white men clustered in doorways and nodded their heads ruefully, then looked toward the street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, there was a long silence. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

It had lived in her silence, then, all of those years? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, broken only by an odd clicking noise. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Black forms crawl around in the shadows, silencing whoever survives the fall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Your hair in the mornings is truly a wonder to behold,” is how he breaks the silence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In a sullen silence she began preparing the meal, lighting the fire, fetching the water, boiling the rice, the baby astride her hip as before and whimpering unheeded. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry listened closely to the silence around him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was silence except for the sound of the rising wind. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they do, I can only find enough strength to stare in stunned silence at the grainy screenshot that is now publicly broadcast to everyone in the arena, and probably to everyone watching this game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence for a few minutes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By this time, there was absolute silence in the parking lot. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We walked down the hall and out of the house in silence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

They also used censorship to silence any opposition to their message. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I say nothing which might offend; I respond if questioned, so as not to draw interest through unoccasioned silence; I do what is asked of me; and most of all, I observe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then out of the silence, a faint sound, from a distance, getting closer, like someone chuckling, privately, at a secret intimate joke. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten days of silence had grown into a question that my brain shouted inside my head: “Is Annemarie even your friend anymore?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He turned away, and met all my subsequent overtures with silence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babiki sat next to me in stony silence the whole time, clearly not feeling me or this night at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The one classmate who protested her presence employed silence rather than epithet as a weapon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She remembered those rumors now, while she stood with her father and Maire Solanya in a tense silence, waiting as the sun set over the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence down one of the asphalt golf paths, past the pool, which was lit from inside the water, slowly changing colors from red to orange to yellow to green. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Audrey hadn’t tried to talk to me since the party, and I was grateful for the silence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Jack's voice went on, tremulous yet determined, pushing against the uncooperative silence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We sit on the steps waiting for him together in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his hand to wave and call, but something in the minister’s face silenced him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I invited Rooster Jim in for dinner, and we ate in companionable silence. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Nice wheels,” I said to combat the uncomfortable silence. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When Faraday broke the silence, it felt like a brick flying through the window. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They watched me in silence like I was performing magic. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence as icy as the ground beneath their feet. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

After a moment's silence, Sam spoke in a strangled voice. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On shore, Edwin pulled out towels for each of them, and they dressed in silence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I hoped my prayer would be accepted in silence. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes of awkward crunching, Basil goes ahead and breaks the silence. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There was a long, terrible silence at the other end of the phone, and then his father hung up the receiver. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Kenton was still waiting for me in the hallway and we ascended through the house in silence. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the Maafa’s consideration in the silence that followed. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The silence wrapped around her like a quilt, a silence made up of trees growing and corn ripening, of the bright sky glowing and the distant water following its tides. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the voice of the great dog shattered the heavy, seemingly endless silence that came between the gruff words of the sheriff and those of his men. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He faced a little man, who cautioned him to silence while again they waited for the sentry to come and to go. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The boys sat in silence, finishing their lunches, until Newt finally got to what he really wanted to talk about. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She could almost forget, lying there in the silence, letting the soothing warmth of the big hand erase all the aching. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sinking In the car on the way home the engine battles the hum of silence and sadness that envelops you. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the silence that followed, the Abbot rose and confronted Matthias. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“And in truth, could we but—” “Horsewhip!” 03-01 sang out gaily, holding one aloft, and the company silenced itself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Avoiding Germans, they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seems sometimes there’s a deep silence all about us out here waitin’ to be filled.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

All they’d had for two and a half years was silence and lies. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mamita has given up on making conversation with me, and she slurps her soup in silence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if, even in its silence, the Thunderhead was watching what she did. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I feel the girl’s silence lean down next to me as she drinks, too. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They take their seats around the long, ornately carved table in the meeting room, awaiting the queen’s arrival in nervous silence. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment he went forward and knelt beside the anchor, brooding in silence over something. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then there is silence, so I put the pillow over my head because when they stop talking, I know what that means. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

We travelled the long way home in silence. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hit him that his knife was gone, forever, and the total silence of the ship seemed to press down on him. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

They all stared at me in silence for a few seconds, then pulled out guns and swords, preparing to attack. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was a gruesome and excruciating silence that threatened to endure forever. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They did not speak, for all meals were taken in silence, but they looked at each other from their opposite corners of the sixth-form students’ table. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The question was answered by a negative silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A drive in silence, a long drive in silence. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Whoever had started punching the peanut bag stopped, letting it squeak into silence on the swivel. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad finally broke the silence with an old family punch line. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute or two, silence would rush into the room from its hiding place because I had eaten up all the sounds. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before that silence, a gasp from someone in the room. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode in silence across the narrow Callidian Strait, with only the sounds of the water rocking against the boat to accompany them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Now, there is only silence from the remaining walls and dangling roof. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself flush with embarrassment at having disturbed the Trappist silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long, awkward silence as the judge contemplated her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Crispin,” he said after a moment of silence, “I’ll give you some advice. You’re full of sadness. Those who bring remorse are shunned. Do you know why?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The elderly men whose voices hardly rose above a whisper, because they were so used to being listened to, were silenced completely in the ruckus. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at me with big eyes, and her mouth opened and closed, searching for more words to fill the silence. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I thought my brother’s silence meant he was pulling away from us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day—no, it must have been the fifth— an ominous silence pressed in on the room as the fever penetrated deeper. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime later, with a suddenness emphasized by the silence that followed, the rain stopped. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The house rang with silence, but I didn’t dare suggest music, so I listened to the song my peeler made. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His silence is an awkward one, like those times in history class when we reviewed monumental events from the BDC days. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The word rang like a chime in the silence, the sound rippling out over me, over everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I have never heard a more eloquent silence. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

In silence the six men rose and filed past the table, each looking at the pile of white bones. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned her forehead against the bars and after a short silence went on in a thoughtful tone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The President switched off the music and, with the final note of the final stanza, there was absolute silence—the silence of stretched expectancy, quivering and creeping with a galvanic life. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the door, his silence is so complete that she worries he has managed to depart the world altogether. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of silence like a tribute given to the dead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The flag was whipping in the wind, and I could hear the white noise of traffic in the distance, but it was otherwise quiet, the cicadas and crickets silenced by the cold. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stand the suspense and I didn’t want to walk in a silence that was so full of questions. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The important parts exist in the silences between the words. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silence in which Ron fidgeted absentmindedly with a hole in his Chudley Cannons bedspread. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I sigh, sink into the silence, and cross it like wind. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it’s impossible to kill it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I muttered after both of us had sat in silence for a while. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m grateful I don’t have to talk to Thomas anymore and can think in silence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Almost at once it became embarrassing to sit there in silence; besides, it was too cold to keep still. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly—as though the same thought had struck them all simultaneously—there was silence. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone in the heat and the silence, and then it began to rain and he rode head down into monstrous lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a short while the trees beside him grew denser as he walked, and only birdcalls and squirrel rustlings broke the silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Until this point I had barely spoken a dozen words, responding to most of their tentative questions with grim silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The white bully was his hero, but other whites maintained a disapproving silence. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Montag watched the great dust settle and the great silence move down upon their world. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there’s the other part of me that will not be silenced or ignored. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The secretary shrugged, smiling painfully; they lapsed into silence for a minute. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither of them spoke for the entire ride, but the silence wasn’t uncomfortable or awkward. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The cheers of the other covens faded, and silence grew around them until it was a bloated monster waiting to pop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The words trailed off, aimless, disconnected, and hung in the air for a long moment of tight silence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She stopped asking questions, drew Poppy onto her lap, and gazed in silence at the glimmering landscape. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They marched in silence around a corner and she stopped before a large and extremely ugly stone gargoyle. she said. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The woman fell silent and the silence of the courts was heavy as silence can be after life has gone. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid you won’t leave any of it for him,” said I, timidly; after a silence during which I had hesitated as to the politeness of making the remark. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence, watching as the slate roofs of the houses on the outskirts of the city came into view. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ineptly smothering his own sputtering guffaws, Joe frantically thrust up his hands, again wiggling the fingertips for silence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd take a bite, and the rest of us would wince at the unnatural silence. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He went to the door and raised his voice, at which there was immediate silence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some suffragists favored more militancy, arguing that silence was a sign of weakness, not strength. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a tiny silence and then...I started to laugh. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dead silence was around him, and over all hung a clear blue sky, as the Sun rode up from the East. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The hushed silence seemed to stretch on and on. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Every now and then I’ll pass another hiker on his or her way down, and we’ll nod or say hello, in the way that people surrounded by acres of silence do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He barked again, and again was answered by only silence. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped talking about the silence between him and his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They watched in silence as she drew nearer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My mother silenced the intercom and turned back to me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The web of force, of tension, of silence, grew. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The guy cupped his bloody cheek in his hands and screamed in short bursts, a high-pitched squeal and then silence, a high-pitched squeal and then silence. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“What do you think happens now?” she asked after a silence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had studied it carefully, for two minutes, three, five, and in the silence the class grew uneasy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cluny silenced them with a wave of his tail, then vanished into the night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

His enigmatic silence, however, unquestionably had mischievous consequences, for it prolonged the scheming in the House and, somewhat ironically, convinced Jefferson that Burr could never be trusted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Among the Collegians, silence was protection; among the rebels, ’twas grief. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They lapse into silence and walk for a solid fifteen minutes before Scoob realizes he’s missing a golden opportunity to get some of his questions asked. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

With new respect she moved to pass him the wooden bowl of popcorn, and to it she added a smile that caused him to lapse again into scarlet-faced silence. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But the hushed silence remained for several more seconds. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can remember both about my grandfather, but when I think of Tom it is a memory of a kind of warm silence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was still cloaked in an eerie silence. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Just something I heard once,” Kote said to fill the silence, obviously embarrassed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry sat in silence once more, watching the contents of the Pensieve swirl. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was the sound of a piece of paper being unfolded, and then a few seconds’ silence. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now, in the late afternoon, it lay calm and smooth, a good audience for silence, a seven-mile circumference that could be traveled by slow car in twenty-five minutes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

How else, after all, to know how to read those silences? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rode in silence for about fifteen minutes before the young woman’s husband suddenly stood and did something I’d seen many others do before him: He kissed Baba’s hand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kote stood with his back to the room, a stillness in his body and a terrible silence clenched between his teeth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We bump along in a decidedly uncomfortable silence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Leroy drove in silence for a while, resting his elbow on the door and gripping the wheel lightly with his fingertips. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was not a man to speak this way to a brother officer, a fellow Virginian; he shocked Stuart to silence with the iciness of his voice. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never felt the comfortable silence we shared as we cleaned the rice, carefully, because the grains were stunted and sometimes looked like the glassy stones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They washed in silence until Jennifer could no longer take it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was smoking now in silence, for Frodo was sitting still, deep in thought. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her silence and the noises and smells from the kitchen made him feel claustrophobic. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then there was an interlude of silence while the priest and his attendants moved to the second station, Christ receiving the cross. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more these days, silence is how they get on. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was two years younger than the youngest orphan, not to mention Smaller and skinnier, and Lommy and Hot Pie took her silence to mean she was scared, or stupid, or deaf. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We walked on in silence, his footsteps again matching mine. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students all gaze back in silence, a few of them frowning as if she, their teacher, has no right to ask questions. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

To her mother’s inquiries she answered that she was quite well, and Jo’s she silenced by begging to be let alone. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sky deepened like brewing tea, Minli and the dragon looked in silence at the red line reaching to the heavens. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Among these walls, all that remains of the fallen is the emptiness of where they walked, the silence where their voices rang. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We walked across the well-worn path in silence. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a library, in a house, in total silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Once I might have silenced him forever, but now . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We set off again, our number sunk in complete silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He’d silenced Matthias’ conscience with prejudice and the promise of a divine calling that was probably nothing more than the wind moving through the branches of an ancient tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, don’t you worry about that,” Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The voices can be muffled by the meds, but they can’t be silenced entirely. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The silence that fell in the room sent a chill up Moss’s spine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Iorek watched closely, and touched the edge of the window with his paw, and sniffed at it, and stepped through into the hot, moist air to look around in silence. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And his shout was sucked into the silence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You should hear her sing,” I continued, trying to fill up the silence. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The three sat in silence, looking upstream to where the water rushed through the narrow gorge. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the breath-held silence that follows her outburst, she buries her face in her blanket. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them walk down the hall in silence. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat secure in the silence, a jeep scuffed to a stop on the road and good Charley left his work and roared. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sunk back deeper into his silence than when I had left him yesterday. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In silence the two boys lifted the heavy stake and carried it between them out into the deserted street, in which the rosy light was graying into dusk. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence until we get to the actual river. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted to fly across the table at him, but instead I frothed in silence through the rest of that interminable meal. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then silence while Violet drank tea and listened to the hissing iron. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a peaceful silence beneath the sounds of the wind; it was a silence with no trace of people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unaware of my plight, poor Thomas was obviously bothered by my unusual silence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She laughs, and a comfortable silence settles over the both of us until she goes off to get some lunch. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

To that end, it is a part of a continuum of how we hear all sounds including noise, speech, and silence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Like ripples around a stone dropped into still water, the circles of silence spread out from the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not answer her, and after a moment of stony silence, she seems to remember herself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Anya thought it might be the elves, but she banished that thought the moment she remembered Alfhercht’s complete silence in the trees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Billy and I faced each other in silence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But now, only a few night birds and insects broke the silence—crickets, an owl, some other bird I had no name for. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We fell into silence for a moment or two. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

He answers that one with silence but soon looks at me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“In a word, the seal of silence has been imposed, and this is the best proof of the vigorous work that is going on now abroad.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, with nothing to really cheer about, the noise quickly died and then there was a confused silence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the foreboding silence, I followed my usual path to the river. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only protection from grief was silence and rules. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Something made me pull sounds out of my silence the way that Julian pulled puzzle pieces out of Nadia's hair. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence in the squash court. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In silence Eliot and Mrs. Sen ate the last few clam cakes in the bag. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The house was filled with a suitable silence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once again, the night seemed to hold its breath: a blessed moment of silence. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

All that noise turning into an eerie silence. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was good luck to start a journey with some silence. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A full minute of silence passes us by. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Now it seems there are only shadows and silence. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ivy and I pass through the heavy silence like it's thick mud. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Following that 911 call, his silence was not just a different size of the unspoken. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He abruptly stops dancing and makes a cutting motion with his right hand, silencing the music. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When Padre Gabriel was done, he looked up, and there was utter silence in that church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence to the bottom and soon found ourselves once again on County Road 2435 together. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Around him were silence and night and snow falling, falling as though it had fallen from the beginning of time and would always fall till the end of the world. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting alone—enjoying the silence—when Eddie walked up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“They couldn’t stand the silence,” Viola says, her voice still. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Christmas mornings of his youth had been suffocated under an excess of piety, prayer, and silence, as if a giant wool blanket had settled over the house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So I spent the morning the way I’d spent every day for the past few months, lost in a haze of silence and stillness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sit for a while in comfortable silence. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence and stillness between us became unbearable. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And the fat man and the little girl lay awake in silence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the chill of that sudden, hurt silence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was so unnatural, so ominous, it weighed heavy on us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Elderclock ceased its ringing, and in the silence that followed, she shut her eyes in relief. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I let the words hang in the silence. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hold her warm body until finally we are rocking in silence. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was silence and then one of the others said, “I don’t like this. It sounds like an ambush.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes, and I try to let her words work themselves into me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The door closed again, and silence engulfed the small, cinder-block room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Another silence, and he said, “You miss goin’ to the Methodist church, don’t you?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s one of those silences that’s so thick, it feels solid. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The words were no sooner out of his mouth than the doors of the Great Hall opened and silence fell. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of complete silence. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They move in perfect silence to the bunker, because no one is allowed to wear shoes and because Max has made them practice a hundred times. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There were only silence, quiet weeping, whispers, and fear. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short silence follows as we look around his booth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several seconds of silence followed, then there was a crash, accompanied by screams of pain and shock from the rats packed into the ditch below. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She stood for a few heartbeats, feeling the wild blood surge in her neck, then went silently to the window— the silence of an accomplice. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the process, the child pierces the silence in the room with a short-lived cry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence that follows, I notice the lines that have formed between Peeta’s eyebrows. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And then a noise shoots through the silence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wondered why it was that this home of his, known to so many people by hearsay, even to me, should so inevitably silence him, making as it were a barrier between him and others. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her mouth was pursed and tight like a bright pink sphincter, and her silence spoke louder than any slammed door. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They kept still, tilting their heads to the wide silence, straining to hear. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew that the next thing after the silence would be the strap, so the silence had some kind of power in it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guessed. But my guesses have usually been good,” said Dumbledore happily, and they sat in silence for what seemed like a long time, while the creature behind them continued to whimper and tremble. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I looked to Alice, waiting for her to answer for me, and there was a long silence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went quiet, and in the silence I could feel him dreaming it: scenes from a life that might’ve been. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cain raises his hand for silence, and in seconds, the crowd goes mute. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I spelled it, and then there was a long, sad silence. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ron ignored this jibe, sipping his drink in what he evidently considered to be a dignified silence. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There followed a long and not too pleasant silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, there was silence now; the tribe were curious to hear what amusing thing he might have to say. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

You move through everything, and your heartbeat becomes a pulse of all things alive, all at once, and the silence between each beat is the stillness of things that exist, but do not live. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A deadly silence filled the house apart from the gentle patter of the rain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence, lagging behind, until finally she judges she can say, “Of course you can’t. But find out and tell us.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, with the air still scented with exploded powder, collectors accompanied by armed guards went to each ticket booth and collected the accumulated silver, three tons of it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They had dedicated an entire show to us, a fact that mesmerized us into complete and utter silence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The chief elder held up his hands for complete silence, then nodded. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Still, the silence ringing in mv ears sounded like voices, so I poured myself a glass of wine, and then another, and then I phoned Scott. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the silence, Bigwig lurched to his feet, swayed a moment, tottered a few steps toward Fiver and fell again. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They go on awhile longer, until they’ve both apologized, and for a while, we talk among the night that has dripped upon us with silence. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Rick sat in silence for a time. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tormented by the silence and the refusal the assembly broke into a chant. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

So we shoveled in the darkness and silence. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I felt myself curling in, into my sleeping-grass silence, but it was time to stop holding back. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But his declarations of readiness were received with awkward silence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Gay did not comment, her silence was almost worse than her nagging. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward silence until Mom said, “So ... how is it playing against these boys?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s a long second of awkward silence, except for the usual Bushwick noise. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We dash from one end to the other, waving our arms like little kids, puncturing the silence with cheerful shouts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of silence while Pearl struggled to process this information. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I heard a grunt as he stood up, then the heavy thumping of his boots faded away into silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung answered nothing to all this and in silence they went on towards the south. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She swore me to absolute silence, saying above all else those men must not connect us with their ugly deed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bast feared the deep, weary silence that gathered around his master at times, like an invisible shroud. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The murmuring silence gave, the crowd burst into loud chatter: it was as if the thought of food had loosened all tongues; and the pushing and thrusting became more violent. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to scream or cry out, end the silence, but I don’t want to give the Director the satisfaction. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

RiRi was quieter than usual, but she worked hard to process Story in silence, not wanting to prove our theories of her being too young to know the whole truth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There’s silence between us, except for the thump of my dad’s chain knocking against my sweatshirt. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

A short silence was followed by the quick shuffle of feet and the bouncing strobe of flashlights in hands. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

We marched in silence, along the line of the fence rails. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Cain releases my arm and his voice booms out, shaking the foundations of the amphitheater and silencing the panic setting in. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ilse checks my belly, tut-tuts, and shuts herself in her room to eat cake with a Nazi SS officer named Rolf while my thirteen starve in silence above her head. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was at home with the silence of the desert, and he was content just to look at the trees. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” the boy said suddenly, after a very long silence, “things won’t ever again be the way they used to be. I know that.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The two of them sat in silence for a while, Lyra uncomfortable on the hard floor of the wardrobe and Pantalaimon self-righteously twitching his temporary antennae on one of the robes. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There are two soft thuds, then a louder one, and then conspicuous silence. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The snake fought frantically, making hissing sounds that shattered the silence of the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually the talkative groups settled into a contented silence, but no one seemed disposed to go to sleep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two children, crouched behind the low-hanging branches of a hulking oak tree on the other side of the pond, watched the flickers of scarlet in the distance in fearful silence. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was a little silence on the phone. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the field a heavy silence prevailed, overpowering motion like a ruthless, insensate spell holding in thrall the only beings who might break it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike the happy silence we’d all enjoyed earlier that morning, we suffered instead a black kind of stillness on our route back home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She rests her hands on the table in front of her, and the silence hangs in the air between them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even toward the beginning she must have noted my silences, my bitten fingers, the dark scabs on my lips where I’d pulled off patches of the skin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he lapsed into silence I thought of what Bear said about Lord Furnival. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of an uncomfortable silence as we held our places. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They stopped at the same time in a high silence. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta walks me down to my room in silence, but before he can say good night, I wrap my arms around him and rest my head against his chest. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was an awkward silence as I thought about what might be in that bag. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

An awestruck silence fell over the crowd, followed by a rumble of fearful recognition from the thousands of gunters present. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We ride home in a thick fog of silence. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The silence on the phone indicated Emile’s appreciation of Archie’s genius. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magistrate stared in dumbfounded silence as the Old Man of the Moon walked away up the mountain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He sat for a moment half dreaming, listening to the noise of water, the whisper of dark trees, the crack of stone, and the vast waiting silence that brooded behind all sound. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They completed their walk in silence, and when they parted ways, Celaena quickly wished Nehemia a pleasant evening before striding to her part of the castle. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And I want you to feel it—the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a short silence and then the sound of the door being opened. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were swallowed up by the early morning silence of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes the two girls contemplated the possibility in mournful silence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had breakfast in silence long after Papi left for work, Mami distant as another country, shrouded by something dark and grievous that we couldn’t break through. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had finished: Miss Temple regarded me a few minutes in silence; she then said— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He’s impatient, he can’t help hearing these monosyllables, these murmurs, these silences. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“May I introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?” said Dumbledore brightly into the silence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We were debating whether or not Chubs had broken his toe against an exposed tree root when the wail of a truck’s horn shattered the silence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the silence at the beginning of this game was unlike anything Siobhan had ever experienced. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the silence, Cooky poked his head out of the main hatch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I saw masks of iron with metal mouth-bits for the slave to suck to enforce absolute silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sound breaking the anxious silence is shocking. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

After another long silence, Carolina felt compelled to say: “Well, it’s always darkest before the dawn.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while the hobbits sat in silence. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

A silence fell and the crowd parted to make way for the tall, dark-haired man who was now striding toward the stage. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In subsequent weeks, I was grateful for that silence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The space between us is worse than our awkwardness, worse than not knowing what she's thinking during our long stretches of silence. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Winston became aware of silence, as one becomes aware of a new sound. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was only an ominous silence from inside her office. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes there was silence as they all read their letters. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor would have let the silence hang, as if everything was obvious. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For an eternity of silence the mother stood there in the spotlight, drawing her head back on her neck in fear and puzzlement. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not speak to either of her parents as they left the house, Ben filling in for her hostile silences by exuberantly bidding the Matthews farewell again and again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit in the truck in silence for a long time. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

His mother, too, was silent, but he had seen her pray before, and her silence made him feel that she was weeping. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A fuzzy silence lingered at the Memphis end of the conversation. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes flew to the ceiling, slapped with dirty white paint and a fresh, ringing silence. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you should stop seeing him,” he suggests after another long silence. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Papa,” Annemarie had said, finally, into the silence, “sometimes I wonder why the king wasn’t able to protect us. Why didn’t he fight the Nazis so that they wouldn’t come into Denmark with their guns?” Number the Stars 1989-04-24T00:00:00Z

They drove back through the town in silence, Bod trying to Fade as best he could, with no success. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They walked halfway down the block in silence before Benny mumbled something. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For a while they just stayed there in comfortable silence . . . siblings, children from the past, children of the Underworld. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Harry saw him glance into the mirror over the bar at the goblins, who were all watching him and Harry in silence through their dark, slanting eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

In the silence, I hear the echo of it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence as he finished telling the story, but it wasn’t the usual, sleepy silence that filled Professor Binns’s classes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She was one of the stars, a bright dot in blackness, without home, without a companion, in eternal cold and silence. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the silence that descended on the house was sudden, as though the old silence had broken and left us with the sharp pieces. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a brief moment of silence, and then all of us burst out laughing. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Him: Let’s continue this awkward silence in person. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Now the companions halted, and stood in silence at a narrow neck of the swamp. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now that there was no longer the sound of my soggy footsteps, the silence was piercing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence before he spoke. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She turns her music back up to cover the uncomfortable silence. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And when her cursed, evil silence polluted our swamp, I thought God had sent me a sacrifice to make myself, one last example of the evil that hides itself which I could destroy and purify.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He seems to struggle in silence, wondering whether letting me into his world will be a huge mistake. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And then her expression turned grim, as if, in the brief silence between us, she had intuited the terrible thing I’d come to tell her. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then he noticed the strange silence on the bus. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Initially she’d tolerated his silences at the dinner table, his indifference in bed, his need to speak to his mother and Sonia every evening, and to visit them, on weekends, without her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

About him the companions stood in silence and dismay. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment of stunned silence, he mutters, "Keep to myself, I do." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everybody looked at her, and there was a moment of silence. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like the silence I found in the swamp today,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In this company, silence was the better part of wisdom, but Tyrion could not help himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now, however, though the code of silence is still nominally in place, inmate lips seem looser and officers’ use of snitches more widespread. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the worst difficulty is maintaining silence when thirteen people are arguing all the time. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Emboldened by the silence, Tree-ear emerged from his hiding place and approached the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then, his lips pursed, his face turned red and he strode quickly up the center aisle in silence, pushing through the heavy bronze doors, their hinges complaining at his exit. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He sits, and the silence hovers over them, his mother’s hands folded in a considering pose against her lips. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But then came the crisis: the domed silence; the dusty pages of books all around me; the days accumulating in lists of obsequious footnotes; the wandering doubts about the value of scholarship. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence spoke, not with harsh sounds, but softly to the rhythm of our blood. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being so immersed in Warcross, the silence in the apartment feels overwhelming. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He kept his silence, but he would not move, and his eyes were full of poison as they rode away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We stand in silence for a little while, and I’m grateful for his presence, which keeps me from being overwhelmed by grief. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of silence, and then Roscuro said to the queen, “I beg your pardon. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

We all watched in silence while the locker was cleaned out, all the possessions dumped into a backpack. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” I said after a few seconds of awkward silence. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They kept on, largely in silence, for the next few hours. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They ran downstairs, moving with color and life against the dark woodwork and the clouded light of the stairs, their feet clattering, and Mrs. Dudley stood below and watched them in silence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Burns made no answer: I wondered at her silence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence to the harbor where the small motorboat is docked. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The door came to a stop with a soft thud; then there was only silence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He stalked off, leaving the room in silence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still concerned with the silence of God at communion. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tableau of perfect silence, all motionless. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The electric lights in the ceiling are far apart, and the silence in the huge space is oppressive. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We drove there in silence, and just before we walked into the club, I took off my carnation and handed it to my father. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He and Rita found themselves in the grip of tense silence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Outside the library, they walked several yards in silence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then his mother’s voice became firmer than firm, and that was followed by more silence. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Art told the coroner about the drifting boat, the silence and the lights on board the Susan Marie and about bringing the dead man up in his net. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I climb to my feet and we make our way the few remaining blocks to the university in silence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They stared at each other, both of them shocked into silence, as the sea star and its leg fell from Loo’s small hands. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even the younger birds sat all day in dismal silence, and Mr. Popper could not cheer them up. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the first example, the pink lines indicate the duration of a sound and then silence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Some of them sought to rationalize their behavior after the fact, as though fearful that history would judge them for their silence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Passing them in silence down that silent corridor through the drifting ash where they struggled forever in the road’s cold coagulate. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She attributed this to his war experiences, and for the most part she let it be, this silence of his. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, outside this golden emptiness, his sounds were stifled to silence. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She probably would have gone on, but Jenna’s look silenced her. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The Taliban came in and made gradual changes. When people finally woke up to what was happening and tried to stop them, the Taliban silenced them with threats and fear. Fear is the biggest factor.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer’s old face was stern as he shook the bell vigorously for silence. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rest of the meal was finished in silence until the king, wiping the gravy stains from his vest, called for dessert. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

We eat in silence for a few minutes. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would lapse into a sullen silence that lasted until his next bout of shouting. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The meal was awkward—mostly silence punctuated by the occasional comment by the scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of strained silence, during which time my mother eyed me thoughtfully. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence now, as the Englishmen looked in astonishment at the frowsy creatures they had so lustily waltzed inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butler longed to whistle, to make conversation, anything to break the unnatural silence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

After minutes of noisy crunching over glass, there was sudden silence under their boots where the road ended in fine sand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

His stomach full, his energy replenished, his mind thankful for a few moments of silence, he decided that from then on he’d quit whining and deal with things. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of silence that goes on for so long that you have no choice but to fill in the blanks and decide what other people are saying for them. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

There’s a beat of silence as he stares at the floor. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

What signified was not the tales we told, commonplace or fantastical, but the gestures, the silence of friends as another recounted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

That silenced the rest of them for good about the matter of God. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They both laughed until they fell into an awkward silence. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I said it was splendid, too, and then we sat in silence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After a silence of some minutes she observed— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then it was drowned out by sounds from another conjured remembrance—crickets, then gunfire, then silence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They stand in stony silence, with stony faces, staring at the young man who did not betray them, but never truly felt that he belonged to them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

After twenty minutes or so of sitting between us in silence, Didu finally pulls herself together. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then I might turn Ayorthaian and trail off into silence, lost in smiling at you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A warning look from her mother checked any further remarks, and the whole family ate in heroic silence, till Mr. March mildly observed, “salad was one of the favorite dishes of the ancients, and Evelyn...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is very sociable inside my head, and I have perfected the art of getting a lot of people arguing together in silence or in a forum, as I prefer to call it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I feel a wash of silence flow over me from behind. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I walked behind him, noticing the silence of my own footfalls, aware that my Keds didn’t click elegantly on stone the way the heels worn by other girls did. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our humble apartment—and, with it, all my worries—is replaced by blackness and silence. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, As we walked through the double doors and entered the cold and scary room at the Holocaust Museum, silence fell upon me as I looked at the death of millions. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I have no idea. It’s been spooky quiet since the Spencer fire. No threats. No midnight riders. It’s the silence that scares me.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

With every bite the crunch of lettuce disturbed the uncomfortable silence. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Obediently the children stacked their mugs on the stainless-steel trolley before leaving in silence. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She would beat Ruth into total silence if I let her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lockhart, wearing lurid pink robes to match the decorations, was waving for silence. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Although we spoke aloud after Papa said the first few words alone, an outer silence enveloped us all, shrouding us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew shattered the silence by whistling loudly, shrilly, and long. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was the first sound, besides the purr of the car, to break the long night’s silence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As she did, Bear put up his hand to silence me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Standing beside Cole’s bed in the hospital, he had said to her, “This is what has come from your silence. Keep quiet now, and you share the blame.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

We both sat in silence for a while. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When the whole class was seated, Lockhart cleared his throat loudly and silence fell. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence from down below. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

And there was also the reservoir of dark water, all covered by snow and by night, by snow-fall and by night-fall, buried beneath black and white, gray mist and gray silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt each second of silence like a blow to her gut. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But I immediately silence myself because it also feels wrong. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was silence, but I could hear her brain operating. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So, later, when we were lying in bed, I was so frustrated and sick of the silence that I actually broke down and started talking to Chas Becker. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Who knew birds could even chirp so loudly, that was the type of silence they cut through. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He gripped Kabuo’s fishing gaff harder and only afterward, when the battery was in the well, did he put his palm to his mouth and hold it there, taking back his blood in silence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We went in silence for a stretch upriver. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, I learned why the silence in which she worked seemed so magical. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There’s an awkward moment of silence, when Annabelle searches for a response. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In our own lonely silence, each of us tried to make some sense of it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We sat silent for a moment, waiting for any movement or lights, but as we’d just learned, darkness and silence did not translate to safety. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For a long moment there is silence between us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Dimple began to say that the movies sounded fine, but the thought of this continuing silence, this hurt/awkward mixture of pauses and emptiness, was too much. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood alone, in the middle of the corridor, as silence fell among the mass of students pressing forward to see the grisly sight. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That ended what he had to say; he drove in silence. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder now what my parents’ silence contains. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might have waited forever if Nana hadn’t broken the silence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the silence that followed, the magistrate seemed to be getting fidgety. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She had long since accepted that this was part of the job, that she had entered “a vast dome of silence from which I can never emerge.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed that both Joon and Ben had stopped painting to stare at the other end of the table, where Nat was working in utter silence and concentration. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My silence at home pressed on—with nobody for me to turn to, and with nobody in sight to rescue me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It’s chilly and unnaturally quiet—if Abby weren’t with me, I would have to drown out the silence with music. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I guess we all did, because we all sat for a long minute in silence. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, Augustus a half step in front of me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As the two coaches lingered in the office, the boys’ usual post-practice banter and joshing faded away and was replaced by an uncomfortable silence. 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 silence that followed came a reply to port—this time a man’s voice, calm and factual, a voice he recognized. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The hares on the down, stupid and torpid with cold, were resigned to sinking further and further into the freezing heart of snow and silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was heavy while Rishi stood and left a hefty tip on the table so they wouldn’t have to. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He started walking back toward my house, and when the silence was almost too much to bear, Diego said, “You know that painting you like?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they talked, she and her father, and other times they were silent, a shared and satisfying silence, as they were that morning. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Her silence filled the tree, swelling the hurt that hung there. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, there was a long silence on the phone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ash went about her work in silence as Ana upbraided her about her poor cooking skills, the invisible layer of dust on the dining room table, the unevenness of her stitching on their stockings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Danby stood barring the door, waving everyone else away in ashen silence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sirius lapsed into silence, still staring at the cave wall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

After a long moment of silence in the dark, David continued. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was an astonished silence, broken by the deep, amused voice of a man. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was deafening after the snap of Carter’s fingers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel a kind of comfort and silence from it, nothing like the tension that had stirred it earlier. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is such an interesting thing to say that I’m intimidated into silence. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And we’d been lost in the silence for several seconds when he finally said— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

We both smack the sudden silence with laughter. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And then, as if Mr. Muhammad’s voice came from afar, I heard his words: “I’ll have to silence you for the next ninety days—so that the Muslims everywhere can be disassociated from the blunder.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was always like this in the beginning: the shocked silence. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He put up his hand to silence her, and handed the woman a pen and piece of paper. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I handed her the Gandy’s Rock pamphlet, told her that’s where we were going, and we drove the rest of the way to Fang’s in silence. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a brief silence, then a hint of curiosity in Redemption’s voice. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We sat out there in silence for a minute and then Gus said, “I wish we had that swing set sometimes.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bailey tries to ask more questions about the rêveurs and their scarves, but before he can, Poppet pulls him into another tent and he is immediately silenced by the sight he is met with inside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then in silence he rose to his feet, in silence slowly walked towards the door. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a short, unhappy silence, the others agreed, and Constance took up the flashlight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Ford rapped for silence with the walnut gavel presented to her by associates on her appointment to a higher court. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars shone through the window and the silence of the heavens seemed to be round him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn't say anything—just let the silence hold us for a moment. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The blurring gears slowed, came to a smooth stop, returning the room to silence. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Maxim spoke, his voice was hushed, too, gentle and low, as if he had no wish to break upon the silence. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear the Noise of men and the silence of women gathering across town in the meeting hall. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the Creation of Éa, which is the oldest song, it is said, “Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk’s flight on the empty sky.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He did not see the Gray appraising him in silence and coming up from behind him, stalking him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then silence fell, until Catelyn found her courage and asked the question whose answer she most dreaded. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She wakes up pretty soon after that, and we pack our stuff in silence. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She put down the scalpel and fell into a long, stunned silence. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I hold up a finger to silence her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We drove a few minutes in silence before Myron broke it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

And before he could bite it back, he heard himself say, “I can tell stories. I know a lot of stories,” before faltering into a painful silence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She never thought silence could sound so scary. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The judge wet his lips with his tongue and lifted a piece of paper that crackled loudly in the silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Boy21 and I have already sat in silence together, and on the first night we met too. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands began trembling uncontrollably as we sat there throughout the night in silence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The silence that now replaced our loud voices was almost uncomfortable. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They waited in silence until I had closed the door behind me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In silence they went back to the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bull crowed with delight, a self-indulgent but euphoric eruption that silenced his wife’s catcalls for the moment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found a silence again for a few moments, but it wasn’t uncomfortable. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They fill silence with their weight, dense and warm, like bread dough rising under cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The smut that was really science fell with a crash into the boys’ eye-avoiding silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much silence, I fought the urge to go out and make sure everyone was still breathing in the other room. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At first I chattered to fill the silence. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We watched in silence at the beauty and grandeur of the great fish. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was so complete that they could hear the unevenness of Piggy's breathing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The side-to-side, side-to-side rhythm of the windshield wipers fills the silence. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They take off into the darkness, and Ananda and I sit in silence, listening to the radio. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, during which Bunny leaned back in his chair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a long moment they looked at each other in silence, the boy with his arm still raised to his mouth. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about it while the rain picked up against the roof, the only sound breaking the silence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And again, after a silence, “It is better to send him away, even to the south.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the local people were now observing a polite silence, awaiting my next remark. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They sat for a time in silence, Until Catelyn raised her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know ...” Mother pondered the idea in silence. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of silence before there was anything else. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then I started worrying that his silence meant he had been caught. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they looked at him in silence and sorrow. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stare at each other in silence for a while, the candles flickering around them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But Benjamin pushed her aside and in the midst of a deadly silence he read: “ ‘Alfred Simmonds, Horse Slaughterer and Glue Boiler, Willingdon. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

We walked on in edgy silence, tension humming through us like an electric current. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The silence, the gleaming white tiles, the creepy smile on Hygeia’s face ... it all made him want to crawl out of his skin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

April and Marshall froze into a shocked silence. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He himself looked so sad and dark as he spoke that no one made any reply, and after a few moments all six rabbits made their way up the slope in silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried hard to remain composed as we sat in stony silence while I waited for the bailiff to call my name. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She glared, but gave him the courtesy of her silence. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The control room crew quickly pumped show tunes through all the speakers under the dome to cover the awkward silence. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Granddad and I sat in silence for a moment. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They reached the rocky place where the boy had seen the hawks in the sky, but now there was only silence and the wind. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t see him hiding anything at Borgin and Burkes,” said Harry, who had made this point many times before, but said it again simply to break the nasty silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We turn to our food, detached, as images we'd rather not face start to fill the silence. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sefia wanted to thank her, but the stony silence of the room was forbidding, so she only nodded back. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The meal of beans and milk was carried through in silence, and as they left, the strip of hidden wall rose up and formed an unbroken surface once more. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The two of them walked all the way to Matilda's house in complete silence. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

All around me, there was silence now', broken only by moaning. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where once the city’s newspapers would have run an endless series of stories about the aftereffects of the fair, now there was mostly silence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pickett said, pointing, “Alexander says we’ve silenced some Yankee artillery. They’re withdrawing from the cemetery. What do you say, sir? Do we go in now?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He allowed the silence to take its toll. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bad ones were edged with silence and blood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long till we were sitting at the table, eating in silence. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The palace doors were open, and light and sound came at her in a great torrent after the silence of the carriage ride. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was silence then—this terrible silence—and she stood up and smiled at me. She said—very soft now—she said, ‘You are my djinni. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He thumped out the door and the three of us sat in silence. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew I could have tried to comfort her, perhaps telling her how John Kim was probably just as hurt as she was and that his silence was more complicated than she presently understood. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s better to be here, in silence, than in the Pit, watching everyone laugh with their families. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And so he cried again; and his cry returned again; and still the silence waited for God to speak. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mornings spent listless in silence and in fear of confronting the blank sheet of paper. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had much to say to each other, many problems to resolve, many agreements pending, but they both understood that that half hour spent in silence was a well-deserved reward. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Salvador lapsed into a glum silence, Lupita asked, “Aunt Consuelo, could you teach me some English words as we work in the fields?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t driven very far before Mom broke the silence. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

We sat outside together in silence for a few minutes. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The last notes echoed and faded into a terrible silence. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the person who spoke to him was a stranger, Singer presented his card so that his silence would be understood. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He grew uncomfortable and then infuriated by her silence. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year ago he had been fearless as any sane man can hope to be, but now Bast feared silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a while they sat in depressed silence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My answers to her questions were brief, followed by dead silence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Their silence says what their words cannot—it’s better without me. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“We really plannin big sabotage,” the other man at the bar said, breaking his silence. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait for Ruby to trumpet with joy, but instead she just stares at the box in silence. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

We stitched in silence, each deep in thought. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So he said nothing as Annie parked in the farthest corner from the door, letting the car idle as they sat in silence. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Ravenous, they ate and drank, and for a while there was silence but for the crackle of the fire, the clink of goblets, and the sound of chewing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana glared evenly at the top of Bud’s head in the charged silence, trying to make him look up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were still sitting there, in a stunned sort of silence, when the phone started ringing. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

An awkward silence arose at that, but it quickly passed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Kinko and I clatter along in hostile silence as the train gets up to speed. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The only living witness to what happened in the restroom at 10:22 a.m. on September 15, 1963, Sarah chose to live in silence and seclusion for many years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was sharp enough that it seemed almost to wedge its point against his throat. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Anya rolled to her back, gasping as the silence of the swamp became deafening. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I'm trying to do the best I can to moderate the killing, and I’m not getting any credit, he thought as they walked in silence. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the Tillermans ate in absolute silence, in huge bites, barely tasting what they chewed before they swallowed it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sudden silence, and the separation from the din outside, is a relief. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mother stood in silence, pondering Grandma’s words for a long moment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, she and Taisin sat mostly in silence within the cushioned confines of their carriage, each staring out her window at the countryside. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the rattling sounds of the rifles go off and bullets pierce through their bodies, silencing their screams. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking among the giant trees with their snakelike lianas, or vines, hanging down, Roosevelt noted the stillness and silence in the forest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Only then did she slide back into her bed, feeling within her the silence of the entire world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson was the master of silence, especially when he disagreed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was seeing Morgun rubbing his fingers by his ears, listening for a whisper of sound, and slowly growing accustomed to a life lived in silence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

An instant of silence fell when you could hear a wasp on the windowsill. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of silence, but then she spoke. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We settle into a comfortable silence as we admire the shimmering lights of the city. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The silence seemed to last forever as he held my face toward the sun. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was, at the mention of her name, a silence among us; none wished to speak, as would further words disturb her lingering spirit. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if the old man’s deadly silence was a dangerous dark hole that had to be filled up quickly with lots of words. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a bit of an uncomfortable silence then, and I wasn’t sure what to do with my distraught mother and her dying lake. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“That will be the solution, Captain Balan, no doubt” The silence fell again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he walked up, Tally started to ask what was going on, but a glance from him silenced her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then, rather than command silence, he asks: “lend me your ears.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Nervous, feeling as if I’d stumbled on the scene of a crime, I searched the rooms quickly, my footsteps ringing loud in the silence. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That was what Jamie said whenever the conversation died down at dinner: “Awkward silence.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was the silence of hard dry clay and old juniper wood bleached white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They came in silence and departed the same way, dressed in black garments that showed only their eyes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia asks, attempting to find a subject to fill the silence, anything to distract herself from her still-shaking hands, and remembering the fallen glass at dinner. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the applause begun than Mr. 13-04, the music- master, bounded out beside the band, held out his hands for silence, and begged the ladies and gentlemen that they should be still. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a silence from the kitchen, and then Flora’s mother came into the living room with a big, fake adult smile plastered on her face. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

There was silence for a while, except for the sounds of munching; then Ted spoke again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It would not have been so bad if they had been able to, kick and slash their way, but they were supposed to move in silence. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silence, as if Ged was keeping back something he had to say. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey’s silence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went in and my “fans” were silenced. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After the villagers left, their lanterns now scattering in various directions toward home, the family broke their silence and cursed her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence a moment, and then the footsteps went away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The silence was broken as the door slammed back upon its hinges. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ben said, “I wish she had been given the gift of silence.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then, quietly, he said to himself, “I hope the snow covers everything so all the footsteps are silenced, and the whole city can be at peace.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The three of them sat for a moment in silence. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence until they reached the two gilded pillars marking the start of the Takatifu District, and Ekon stood straighter. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He looked far away, like he’d traveled there in the silence between our words. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

All of them however were alike in their reverent silence. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands suctioned onto the stone, and Celaena heaved herself upward just in time to hear a shriek, a thump, and then silence, followed by the shouting of onlookers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And the silence was cracked, suddenly, by an ambulance siren, and a crying bell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was a territory of peace, of silence. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

After the kids finished, there was a prolonged period of silence while Auntie Harrigan chewed on her lip, deep in thought. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Manman pulled the meat and plantains out of her pocket and started eating a piece to fill the silence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I can’t find a way to make my mouth ask for directions to Wabash Street, so I nod and walk along behind her into sunlit silence and shelves and shelves of books. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence behind the door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thing I know: that if my instinct be true regarding poor Mrs. Harker’s silences, then there is a terrible difficulty—an unknown danger—in the work before us. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The play really means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” asked Kelly, breaking the silence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Madge—keys in one hand, trombone in the other—stands still, shocked into silence. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The meeting came to an end in a dreary silence and a half-hearted silflay. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo stirred, feeling that he must break the silence: he longed to shout out aloud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

An uneasy silence reigned for a moment, and then finally Mr Lewis rose to his feet. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the seconds during which they looked at each other in silence, Briony, partly obscured by her sister, shrank into her uniform. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I visit her we never talk much, and are both relieved by the silence, I think. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thousands of men and women wore buttons that said “Our Carter” and watched in silence as, carriage by carriage, the city’s greatest men drove past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

An intimidating look of cruel pleasure on Martina’s face dried up all their laughter and made them wait in silence for the explanation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My community might be upset as well, because I am breaking the culture of silence. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He had tried to tell her that he was just trying to find the fire dancer, but she wasn’t listening and he had given up, thankful for the hugs and the silence. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore waited a moment or two, apparently to see whether any of the Dursleys were going to say anything, but as the silence stretched on he smiled. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As he passed each group, silence fell, and they watched him insolently, itching to kill; but he said nothing, bowing his head, and they knew, anyway, that he was a preacher. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But Diego seemed uncomfortable with the silence, so I gave it a try. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Besides, I had come to understand that silence was my wife’s last refuge, not a mental illness as Dr. Cuevas said it was. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence, and Calder could feel Mrs. Sharpe’s eyes drilling into his head. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He got it, the need for silence right now. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Violet of the Very Spiky Heels tapped her baton for silence. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Seemingly oblivious to the sensational nature of the news he had just imparted, Dumbledore said nothing more about staff appointments, but waited a few seconds to ensure the silence was absolute before continuing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The silence settled back in around them, comfortable but palpable. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mechanical pounding stopped suddenly, making the silence feel stark. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Finding only silence and smoke, Gerald fumbled hastily for his key. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to say something, but he held up his hand to silence me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paused and there was a heavy silence. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the silence, though it was also way too quiet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He just shoots me a look that says to leave him alone, and we all eat our custard in silence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They rode for a while in silence, a tiny island in the smoky stream of marching men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That dog was very old,” my mother says, breaking the silence between us. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t used to being alone, here or anywhere, and the silence felt like an invasion. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Fold myself into a book, or just appreciate the silence. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a little silence, and then Theodora laughed quickly and said, “No.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

After a long silence, he said: “No, my son. We cannot do this.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several minutes passed in silence and Thomas realized his friend must be as fascinated as he was. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I long to share my stories with her, but discretion holds my tongue and silence feeds my loneliness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I stand and admire it in silence and am soothed by the sight of the falling water. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked why they couldn’t stop by beforehand, there was a long silence, and then she said, “Melba, the truth is we’re all afraid to come to your house.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shuffles off to the house while we sit at the table, using the silence to regroup. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It was Mary Anne who broke the silence when she called out to the blurs on the floor around her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not fought, their love was as sparkling as always, their plan intact, and suddenly there was silence from her, a silence so brutal and complete. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And there was also the reservoir of dark water, all covered by snow and by night, by snow-fall and by night-fall, buried beneath black and white, gray mist and gray silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk up the path in silence, and before we can reach for the door it swings open. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t let the silence continue this time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was indeed little speech, and they ate and drank for the most part in silence, until at last, plucking up courage, Merry asked the question that was tormenting him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They stared at the photo for some time in silence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So there was silence in the room for a minute or two. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

But Selma’s black community would not be silenced. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know what he was thinking, but everyone was too quiet and I didn’t know how to break the silence. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A contented silence settled over the table as everyone ate their fill. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for a while they lay back on their beds in silence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her parents glanced at each other, as if they’d known all along their threat wouldn’t work, and absorbed this news in silence. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Samuel’s mind repeated, “Something—something—can’t find what it is. Something wrong,” and the silence hung on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, his belly was smooth and soft, following the contours of the hills and holding the silence of the snow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her father often indulged her, giving in to what she wanted, but this time he ignored her pouts, her deliberate silences at the dinner table. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Just for a little while, they wouldn’t have me there smothering everything with my silence. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Harry walked beside them in silence as they went down the sloping lawns to Hagrid’s hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As the silence grew longer the tenseness between them became more strained. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So she stood, and pretty soon there was silence in the pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sampled the cake to prolong the silence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Neither of them spoke, and in that pocket of silence, the phone on the desk rang. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They looked to him and he raised his hand for silence. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked at each other in silence, panting, each awaiting the next move of the other. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As yet another silence engulfs us, it dawns on me that unless I want to try leaping across train cars drunk and in the dead of night, I’ll be sleeping right where I am. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I was content to let it drop there, but Diego had this way of looking at me that made me keep talking, like I was afraid to let the silence creep up between us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We followed in silence through the dorm circle and then across the soccer field. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We walked past our synagogue, past the shops and houses, past the library where we had sat and read, walking in silence and saying more with that silence than with a lifetime of words. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She imagined her moths drowning in silence, and it felt like the end of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The silence went on and on, so long that she began to grow afraid once more, but she was afraid for him now, not for herself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was silence after the door had shut once more. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He takes my hand, and we walk along in silence for a few minutes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dari held a finger up for silence, trying not to laugh, and I could tell he felt as tom as I did. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the silence, the battle had been lost. the agent said, turning to his desk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid arguing with his father, he acquired the habit of silence and soon discovered it was far more comfortable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teddy sat, or reclined, in silence for a minute. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Aloud and clearly, breaking that old silence, Ged spoke the shadow’s name and in the same moment the shadow spoke without lips or tongue, saying the same word: “Ged.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, I thought his silence was for the best. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were staring at us in silence, but in that way of theirs, as if we were nothing but stones or dead trees. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I crawled under the covers and lay there in silence. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The singers held the final note, which grew softer and softer, and then there was silence again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whereupon a silence, like the silence of Hiroshima ten minutes after the bomb, struck the men’s room with an audible thud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence and emptiness, she rounded the corner and approached the door that had been open the afternoon before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the child who screamed at that moment in the churchyard had cursed, and sung, and been silenced forever before God gave him a sign. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hence it assailed not only his ears but his eyes; as he stood by the inert TV set he experienced the silence as visible and, in its own way, alive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was another silence, shorter than the first. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When Turner and his mother did appear at church, silence followed in a spreading wake as they walked up the center aisle. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I felt a great emptiness within me, which then filled with silence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her silence, she said, would express something if he would learn to listen to it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Joaquin parked across the street and they sat there in silence, the three of them breathing in unison, looking at the house. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It is safe to say that in the forty minutes that passed between the passenger’s stroke and the landing in Helsinki, there were no more than a handful of seconds of silence in the cockpit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

A dog barked again as the two began work in silence. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Biddy,” said I, “I made a remark respecting my coming down here often, to see Joe, which you received with a marked silence. Have the goodness, Biddy, to tell me why.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We stand arm’s length apart cuz her silence still bothers me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The vomiting of a young girl finally broke the profound silence and caused the women to talk to each other and to God. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the terrible silence the minute she walked in the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence that followed, I considered lying to him, saying, I take it back- I don’t remember anything. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was such a gap: the silence of aftermath, in the dark of the night on the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, at the melted north anchor of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The silence—driven by stigma and fear of shame—results in a repression of public thought, a collective denial of lived experience. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A silence and then, “Yes, Lord knows, I need her.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The chiefs blush was hidden by the white and red clay Into his uncertain silence the tribe spilled their murmur once more. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He liked it best when he was with Ron and Hermione and they were talking about other things, or else letting him sit in silence while they played chess. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stood there; I hung in the center of a spiderweb woven of silence. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth hoped she had silenced him; but he soon afterwards said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Abbey stood at the water’s edge, gazing out in heavy silence. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“So my mom...my mom’s taking Haley and me to Bye Bye Birdie opening night,” I say softly, breaking the silence. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

We sat there in silence for a few moments while my grandmother went on stroking me very gently with one finger and puffing her cigar with the other hand. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had nothing useful to say about this, she thought, and the silence billowed out between them. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Or at least, the silence feels stunned to me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the fact that he was dead right silenced her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Beneath the iron grating of a murder hole Snow broke the silence, as she had known he would. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We slog back to the train in silence. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

This looks like emptiness and silence, but to me it is not empty, not silent. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

So we drove on in silence until we got to Asheville. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He paused, letting the drama grow in the silence of the kitchen. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She bounced twice, straight up and down, then settled onto a hard surface and found herself in silence and absolute blackness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

People at nearby tables had halted their own conversations and were sitting in silence, listening to ours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The record player finished the “Christmas Polka” and clicked off, and for a long time there was silence. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we laughed, but the laughs drifted into a thick, pervasive silence, and I knew we were all thinking of her, dead and laughless, cold, no longer Alaska. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After another long stretch of silence, he said, “Your counselor told us your grades are slipping.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone sat in motionless silence; everyone except Hermione, whose hand, as it so often did, had shot straight into the air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

More silence as I searched around for something that would take us nearer to where we had to go. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The loud silence of the white electorate turned many black moderates into radicals and radicals into revolutionaries. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all sat in silence, staring at the drawing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In silence, she crept away from the campsite and into the looming trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Something seems to be banking up in the silence, a tide, a breaker rearing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, my mothers voice, not much louder than a whisper, broke the silence. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Railroad Tommy, the one who had tried to maintain silence, was himself completely silent now. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a silence in which he must be waiting to be connected, but then his voice warms up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Blackberry led the way to the trampled patch of nettles and Fiver sat still among them, sniffing and looking about him in the silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And through that silence, like the sweetest melody, I hear my name called out. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They worked in silence, daydreaming of various things. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Appa—” I begin, but he holds his hand up to silence me and keeps it there. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hate that this sad, I-give-up silence between us is normal, that our hug on Saturday is the strange thing. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A thing which troubles me: I am sensible of a silence that accompanies me in all conversation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They walked on again in silence and finally she said, thoughtfully, “You know, I'm not afraid of you at all.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trek along in silence for about a mile. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood staring at the wall in silence. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He sat in edgy silence while I finished my dinner, swiveling his head to check out all the windows, expecting to see a fat, angry face pressed against the glass. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and picture my mother and father sitting at the dinner table in silence. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

So with him, she spoke in moods and gestures, looks and silences, and sometimes a combination of English punctuated by hesitations and Chinese frustration: “Shwo buchulai”— Words cannot come out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, half a hundred prayer candles burned in a fragrant silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

How could Hermione have a nervous breakdown—the generally preferred term for her friend who worked in the wireless—how could she choose silence and fear and sorrow in her children? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I remember we all had to bow our heads in a moment of silence for his dead companions before we set to work. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence until Lee Avenue, then turned left. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, all right,” said Harry into the silence. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered if—for a lot of people—it was going to feel like the air had been let out of their angry protest, leaving nothing behind but a strange, empty, mocking silence. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There were a couple long seconds of silence, then, “In the name of Jesus, I remove you evil spirit of rage and send you to the Cross.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Flatnose's voice echoed a long way in the silence that lay over the hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence as he washed my cut with soapy water and a washcloth, one hand grabbing the back of my ankle to raise my leg up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The silence wrapped around them again, and Redemption kept staring down, at his hands or the floor or the paper, Jam couldn’t tell. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The silence seeped from their heads to their soles and into their souls. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then we both feel the silence and look up and there’s the girl standing over us, her hands still tied. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

We all stared at Ogden Morrow in stunned silence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered, riding in the passenger seat of my mom’s car one afternoon, whether there would ever be a break in the silence that now seemed to occupy all of my family’s time together. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The silence was easy; he mainly just played some new music he’d downloaded. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Sorry if I have been antisocial since leaving Nero,” she said after they had walked in silence for a couple of minutes. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Aloe’s voice interrupted, and Jam held up a hand to silence him. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth to ask for my breakfast tray, but silenced myself immediately. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The great silence that followed did little to comfort those left behind. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He pulled into a little dead Martian town, stopped the engine, and let the silence come in around him. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of uncomfortable silence at the table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He hesitated and then added, “which is what you are,” and there was silence on his dune. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family is pretty solemn on the way home, and it’s like no one wants to be first to break the silence, but then Daddy clears his throat. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I swallow in the silence, afraid for a moment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t exactly as if silence fell all over the room, but the volume did dip significantly, and then rose again. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The intake of Gimli’s breath could be heard as a loud hiss in the silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s the way he’s holding himself,” Wilem said, breaking his usual thoughtful silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And as I lay in bed, my mind swung back and forth—even when I tried to silence it—and it spun and spun, pointing in all different directions. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then the silence was shattered with the thunder of hoofbeats; vaqueros surrounded the small house with shouts and gunshots, and when they entered the room they were laughing and singing and drinking. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sip tea in long stretches of silence. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We drank our tea in a friendly kind of silence, and then Miss Whitlaw picked up the box again. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit there in silence for a whole minute. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Johnny stared down in silence for a moment. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But at least you two don’t have to worry about Millie for much longer,” Ms. Jones continued, filling the silence. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bridge, that is, arching slow and high into space, between silence and nothingness where lights—yellow and red and green—trembled in the clear air, repeating themselves. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat for several minutes in silence as Elizabeth tried to think of something to say or do to ease her father’s pain. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s best to get an experienced one, for he relapses into silence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of silence as the two of them sipped their drinks, not looking at anything in particular. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They then sat down, and when her enquiries after Rosings were made, seemed in danger of sinking into total silence. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence until the white horse emerged, ghostly pale, out of the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, at 10:38 p.m.: sighs, applause, exuberance, dumbstruck silence, from all corners of the Earth, as Neil Armstrong planted his foot on luna firma. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the silence, then, that filled the void, John looked on his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They looked at each other in silence, not moving. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran began to explain, but his father hushed him to silence. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

What else could they attend to, when the only other business in the room was their own silence? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the shocked silence, she gestured behind her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sea’s languid retreat into the horizon and the terrible silence of its absence. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, after he had kissed his sisters, he thought proper to forget even to shake hands with me, but left the room in silence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It felt most strange to stand here in the silence and know that he was about to leave the house for the last time. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Wordlessly, the white man sat behind the desk and picked up the paper and looked at it in a long silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was dead silence for the rest of the night. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'm glad for the help, because all of a sudden silence seems scary. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the dust from all the shuffling settles, a silence comes over the desert. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He shivered, and hugged the tree, and kept the silence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There was a final plunk from the piano, and silence. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I take her hand and we start walking toward the subway in silence. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wizard held his gaze for a moment in silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There was a silence in which Crookshanks stretched luxuriously, flexing his claws. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The whole ride home was like that: silence in the trolley car, weeping men and women, groups of people standing about dazedly in the streets, little children looking bewildered and wondering what had happened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The sparrow silenced him with an upraised wing. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

After two blocks of what Jamie would definitely call awkward silence, Bridge said, “Em isn’t mad, you know. She’s sorry she threw that stuff at you. She feels bad.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was accustomed to the silence now, but except for the wind whipping around, things seemed even quieter than they had been just two days before. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The longer the silence the more certain it is that she’s been caught. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We drove in silence for a while as I contemplated the coming horror. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three others ran after him and silenced him with spear and sword. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We rode in silence for a few miles, bumping around on the feed sacks. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of silence at our table. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Far worse were the sudden silences that suggested something lurking near. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After three years of silence, banning, and internal exile, I looked forward to the chance to speak out before the people attempting to judge me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked perfectly calm as he watched them mutter themselves into silence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The reading of comics is done in reverential silence, with now and then a few monosyllables of trade. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took them a few seconds to settle into silence, which seemed to annoy Judge Norton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We ate them in silence, our spoons clicking loudly against Grandma’s porcelain plates. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While he tried to decide on the best way to approach his request, the goblin broke the silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

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

We beat each other up and we asked questions we didn’t want answers to and we wielded silence like a dagger. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They walked into the apartment in awkward silence. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Well after dawn they were still sleeping, undisturbed in a silence deeper than they had ever known. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell him about it before he found out, then beg for his silence or something. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, they gathered their books, got up, and walked in silence to the bus stop. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long moment of thoughtful silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were sitting in silence before glasses of the gin flavored with cloves which was the specialty of the cafe. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, and then my mother knew the truth. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stately and graceful feeling of motion, as we glided across the world in total silence, and with absolute smoothness. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ride in silence for a short while—no music even—but when G’ma spots the exit sign for Edwards, MS, she gasps. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The silence was broken only by the whir of the ceding fan as it sliced through the still air. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody wanted to talk near these statues that seemed to be watching our every move, so silence fell over us until we reached the entrance to Nyame’s palace. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The silence in the room is thicker than them biscuits on our plates. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The darkness and silence of the church pressed on him, cold as judgment, and the voices crying from the window might have been crying from another world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Sisters were assembled for their morning meditation—an hour of silence, followed by singing, followed by a quick sparring session. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A note stands for a sound; a rest stands for a silence. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It would have been normal. All that silence? Made me crazy.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fold myself into a book, or just appreciate the silence. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Harry bellowed, directing his wand at her, and with a bang and a burst of red sparks, the curtains swung shut again, silencing her. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But the terrible silence took hold of Nelson, too, and no words came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember, only one or two sounds should be played at a time, with a lots of silence in between, no harmony or melody or steady pulse should emerge. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In their household, on the other hand, silence had teeth. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would die away and after a short silence start up again. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I searched for the words, I could see him getting impatient; frustrated by my silence, he started to scowl. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The harbor in front of them, the lights along the empty boulevard, the stars in the dark sky above, all hung in the huge silence as if nothing else existed at all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, he turns to the television screen and lets me work in silence. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Every day I woke to deafening silence instead of my sisters' laughter and shrieks. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was a strange silence over the camp. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the moment of expectant silence, the sandy-haired giant swam into the higher tone. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the silence came the muffled sounds of Mrs. Weasley shouting from four floors below. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They stared at her impassively, in absolute silence, for a good thirty seconds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dill’s demeanor conveyed that he wasn’t enjoying making small talk any more than she was, but he also wasn’t ready to fill the silence with anything else. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence in our cell as I got up off the floor and sat back in the chair, tried to stretch out my neck and jaw. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Afterward everyone lowered their heads for an interminable moment of silence. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He ate and drank in silence while Log-a-Log folded the blanket and packed it away. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A heavy silence, more fearful than pious, engulfs the convent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Tradition would have me up in the women’s gallery. It would silence me.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Digger didn’t say anything, but I took the silence to mean yes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we go and have a butterbeer in the Three Broomsticks, it’s a bit cold, isn’t it? You don’t have to talk to Ron!” she added irritably, correctly interpreting his silence. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Before they ate, Faramir and all his men turned and faced west in a moment of silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Another scream shattered the silence, much louder than before, and she beat her dark wings so hard that Will and Lyra both felt the wind and staggered. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He imagined that Bruce had made a gesture to silence them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For several minutes they ate in absolute silence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the living room and did what teenage boys and girls do when they’re being observed by one of their parents—fidgeted in awkward silence. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I do the same, and for a moment, we share the sky until I break the silence. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They heard a hollow scrabbling sound—and then silence. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shushed the room to silence when it was time for the show to begin. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Malfoy spun around on the spot, his hand flying to his wand, but at that precise moment the four Heads of House shouted, “Quiet!” and silence fell again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There was a long silence on the line. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then more silence and the cruel unwinking minds and hands jerking into the silence. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed at Buddy in a long silence. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night there was silence all over the camp, from our little homes to the Lost Boys’ compounds. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead he draws his own map in silence. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A silence fell over the room as they read, interrupted only by the gentle rustling of pages turning and the creaking slide of drawers as Pet explored the archive. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In the silence that follows, I swear I hear it hit the floor. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

In a flash she understood the color of Blanca’s aura, the bags under her eyes, her listlessness, her silence, her morning sleepiness, and her afternoon watercolors. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been met, then as now, with a strained silence, but then they were silly, bad jokes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

So we spent the rest of our paid-for tour in silence, walking through the ancient crumbling halls, trying not to look at the hunks of cream-colored bones in the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Neither of us made a move to see what had just happened, and a forced silence fell over the area. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My question floated into my parents’ sudden silence and hung like a bubble in the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I can never tell with moments of silence. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Mr. Elliot cleared his throat, and the awkward silence that followed felt wrong. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They drove in silence for a mile, past the Universal Laundry and Abdul Rahman’s shoe repair shop where Liyana’s favorite beat-up American loafers were currently taking a vacation, awaiting new soles. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a silence at the other end of the phone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There was brief silence, then a gasp, then a wail. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He had written to his wife that he had made a breakthrough discovery about Vermeer’s work and was then silenced before he could share it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence and the stillness, horror rose inside him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They laughed, but silence soon crept over them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The silence still flows from her, still bothers me, like it’s ready to swallow up the whole world and me with it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

By the time I had knelt down in front of Sam and kissed her, the silence was unbearable. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was quiet, and as if we were afraid of silence, we began cleaning the blood off our guns and the ones we had brought with us, cleaning and oiling their chambers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence through the darkness of the evening, boots crunching on the road. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was as if all the silence had been scraped off and thrown somewhere else. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I am no woman, to be silenced with a slap!" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a short silence; I thought he had gone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He-e-e-re’s lunch!” he announced at cell after cell, undaunted by silence and surliness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara, who had spent nine years without speaking, knew the advantages of silence and asked her daughter nothing, joining in her efforts to erase all memory of Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the rest was silence, a second desert imposed upon the one I already lived in, where “Hi” was as rare as rain. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There was a long pause—and a long silence. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The trucks barreled down the long, winding road, their passengers silenced by the dust deviling up and by the heat. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear my mother’s hysteria and my father’s deafening silence. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Take off your mask, Zeta-4,” the Chancellor calls out, breaking the moment’s silence. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sound of an ambulance somewhere in the city took over the silence of the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She did not, and suffered their pinching and poking and spitting in silence, lest her resistance inspire them to greater torments. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could do was stand and stare in shocked silence. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harm done by this social silence is more than interpersonal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The train jerked to a stop and the silence was like a prayer. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever conclusion he came to made him sit back with a sigh and adjust the mirrors in silence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But those others, I could feel it in the tension and silence that would come over them when I walked in on one of their conversations. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You was a-saying,” he observed, when we had confronted one another in silence, “that surely I must understand. What, surely must I understand?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

After that we drove in silence as the sky blued and the few big clouds showed their low gray bellies. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the silence he had stepped into the room as if he owned it, as indeed, it seemed, he did. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Lightning would strike from the sky any instant; there would be a thunderclap, a boll of smoke, a silence, footsteps on the path, a rap on the crystalline door, and her running to answer.... The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed that way, sobbing, listening to the terrible sounds around her, until silence fell. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They all grew very solemn, then, and finished their meal in silence. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I crawled out of bed to silence. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wished he would at least say or do something, nod his head, smile, even catch me at a mistake—anything but that awful silence. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was a moment’s silence, which was broken by Sirius growling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were a few moments of dazed silence, then steam was released from somewhere, and it made a sound like the train was sighing. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The air felt thick and damp, like the silence that followed the screaming and crying and sirens.The rain had slowed to a drizzle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I’m glad to see him and to eradicate, for a while, the deadly silence of the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ellen kept her silence, but she saw signs of special talents in Jethro, and she watched over him with special tenderness. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

All about me was a deep intense silence, and in it I heard my prayer, voiceless, wordless, rising up and up endlessly like the incense which burnt perpetually upon the altar. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fighting was over, and the silence of the grave had settled over the Red Keep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They ate in silence for a while, molding their garri into balls, dipping in soup, swallowing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jam stared in silence as Pet stood up from its crouch, its full length looming through the air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Sierra gave a half-hearted “Don’t be,” and then everyone fell into a gloomy silence as the Q train rumbled toward Prospect Park. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They waited nearly twenty minutes in the cold room and the silence was frightening. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of watching hours and hours of the Discovery Channel, I found myself in my room staring at an empty TV screen—-just thinking in the silence. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The silence continued, breathless and heavy and full of shame. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ash looked at the apprentice, unsure of how to interpret the slightly teasing tone in her voice, but Lore had turned her face away, and they walked the rest of the way in silence. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We navigate a series of hallways in silence. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The grim silence circled the room like an eager tiger. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Clara still said nothing, but he ignored her silence and spoke normally to her, interpreting her slightest gestures as replies. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it's a bit disconcerting to hear howling winds when you're used to utter silence. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a long moment of silence, he said, “Remember, we have to keep our promise and pray to el Santo Nino every day, for a whole year.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even her waking dreams we used—to silence our own nightmares. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shocked silence gave way to a roar of complaints: “Look, my shoes are destroyed—and I bought them in Paris!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Ah, tie sternum,” he says, and I know they have entered together the shared world of biology, which offers refuge from the real, awkward world of manners and silences we’re sitting in at the moment. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the silence from the speakers that unnerved me, more than the deserted roads or the empty shells of repossessed houses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Kote ran his hand through his red hair, then broke the silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stood in silence for a long moment, but at last he bowed his head. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore did not break the silence that stretched between them now, but waited, with a look of pleasant expectancy, for Voldemort to talk first. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

There were several miles of silence before the woman tried again: “Miss Ellis seems like a nice person.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

There’s a buzzing in my ear, a screeching kind of silence. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence, following our usual route. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When they arrived back in camp, Cole broke the silence. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At first they ascended in a dead silence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people stood in silence as the offering burned itself out. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Minutes passed in silence as I struggled to answer his question. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As she passed the kitchen Coraline could hear, in the sudden silence, the drip-drip of the water from the leaking tap or perhaps the other mother’s long fingernails tapping impatiently against the table. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

So they tried to sink the loss in booze, and silence their grief with war stories about their courage, defending the land they had already lost. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an ominous silence in the store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all shocked into silence, like he’d struck us with invisible bolts of lightning. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The high pitch of the scream shattered the silence of the quiet night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She just washes dishes, her back to me, the running water filling the silence. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a long and awkward silence in which his scar continued to prickle and throb, and which was broken at last by Mrs. Weasley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As they moved slowly North, through Camden, Dover, Smyrna, Blackbird, she became aware of the heavy brooding silence that hung over them. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to but she insisted, and he retreated to a sulky silence. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z