Hush Quotes

“You smell good, too,” said Patch

It’s called a shower.” I was staring straight ahead. When he didn’t answer, I turned sideways. “Soap. Shampoo. Hot water.”

Naked. I know the drill.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“Hang on, did you just call me Angel?" I asked.
"If I did?"
"I don't like it."
He grinned. "It stays, Angel.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!"
Patch grinned, "I can fly.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“Tell me what's going on here. Why can I hear your voice inside my head and why did you say you came to school for me?"

"I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...]

"I get that you're angry—," said Patch.

"I am ripped apart!" I shouted.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush

“Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.”

“Dorian who?”

I sighed. “Just think up something else. Plain old Nora works too, you know.”

“Sure thing, Gumdrop.”

I grimaced. “I take that back. Let’s stick with Grey.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

“Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence

“Don't make me regret this," I said, breathless.
"You haven't regretted me once.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

“But that’s the thing about words. Once you’ve said them, there’s no going back.”
― Dylan Farrow, Hush

“He promptly pulled out a cigarette stuck it between his lips and lit it. I reached over and snagged it from between his lips and put it out.
I pointed my index finger at him. “You will not suck on this death stick in my presence,” I huffed.

Sloane to Siva”
― Micalea Smeltzer

“Sloane,” he said. “You know those stories that little kids read. The ones where the princess always falls in love with the handsome prince despite the bad guy’s effort to thwart it?”
“Yeah,” I said wondering where he was going with this.
“I’m not the handsome prince. I’m the bad guy.”

Siva and Sloane”
― Micalea Smeltzer

“Because, even though love created wrecks of us all, it had to beat the barren wastelands that was utter loneliness.”
― Tillie Cole, Crux Untamed

“What I cannot say to her—what I cannot even understand myself—is that sometimes, I fear the dark will swallow me whole.”
― Dylan Farrow, Hush

“They talked about record labels, about how the majority of labels didn't care anything about the music, they just wanted a pretty face they could saturate the media with. The people who were doing the good stuff weren't being signed. "Same with radio," Ruby said. "It has nothing to do with music. For the station, music is just the noise in between the ads." "No shit. It's even hard to tell the songs from the ads." "I know. It's like solid ads." "And nobody cares. Nobody cares that they're being spoon-fed shit. They just think, I like this shit because everybody else likes this shit.”
― Anne Fraiser

“Sometimes being extraordinary is to be extraordinarily lonely.”
― Dylan Farrow, Hush

“It's just a trickle at first, dark hallways, empty rooms, but then Angela sees a face. Eyes wide, nostrils flaring, a little girl's mouth covered with taut rope. The room is damp and cold and simple, a chair in the middle of it all. That's where the girl sits in a yellow dress, hands bound, hair wet with sweat and feet dangling off the floor. The chair's much too big for her, and something's coming. Something bad.”
― E.M. Blomqvist

“No! Please no," she feels the cool metal
of the handcuffs again. "Please, I'm
Madison, I'm Madison!"
Her arms lock into place above her head.
She jerks her body, pain snapping at her
muscles.
"You can stay like this for the day." He
rises from the bed, bends down, and
blows out the candles on her birthday
cake. "Night, night, Rosie."
"No!"
He opens the door, letting a stream of
sunlight into the room.
"Please don't leave me here, please!"
And then the door closes, and the
sunlight is gone.”
― Kay Botha, Hush

“If you don’t speak the right things, then hush! If you don’t hush, then speak the right things!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He sho a preacher, mon! He didn't look like much at first, but hush!”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Some politicians are much noisier than the dogs! Just like teaching a dog how to hush, public must likewise teach those politicians to shush!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“She fondled, cradled, pacified and hushed the wounded heart to slumber by constantly saying,
It’s over. He’s not coming back.”
― Ruqayya Shaheed Khan

“My mind refuses to focus on the one thing I know is true: Ma. Sprawled on the floor, soaked in blood, a dagger driven through her chest. 'What have you done, Shae?”
― Dylan Farrow, Hush

“Silence is the doorway to the temple of imagination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Ideas love silence.
When you are silent, ideas come to knock on the door of your heart.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Sometimes the worst monsters are just the people around us, pretending to care while baring their teeth.”
― Kaida Nevemore

“Not a cage, but a sanctuary," the soul sighs, seeking solace in silence, where whispers bloom and storms find their hush.”
― Huzefa Nalkheda wala

“Tomorrow is going to happen regardless of what we do. And the next day and the next.”
― R.L. Merrill, Summer of Hush

“You can't get from the crowd, the wisdom buried in the calm of silence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain