#rattle

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go? ↗

— Danny DeVito

#get #go #hang #how #human

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. ↗

— H. G. Bohn

#often #only #rattle #reason #throat

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#breath #death #freedom #rattle

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#attendant #clubs #dozen #enemy #energetic

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#asked #audience #books #boston #furniture