#screams

For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or woman that hung down over the edge of the interrogation table. Then she would squat down on the stool and and look into the face and quietly say 'No. 1' or 'No. 10' or 'No. 25' and the inquisitors would know what she meant and they would begin. And she would watch the eyes in the face a few inches away from hers and breathe in the screams as if they were perfume. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#pain #screams #torture #love

Of course there are people who would like to eat breakfast without the screams of toddlers all around them, but those people should get over themselves and stop being stuck up and idiotic. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#being #breakfast #course #eat #eat breakfast

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams. ↗

— Susanna Clarke

#screams #simile #simile

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#piano #screams #teeth #touch #you

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop. ↗

— Clarence Budington Kelland

#i #morning #screams #stop #then

I remembered screaming then, screaming until my voice stopped. ↗

— Ivy Devlin

#death-and-dying #heartbroken #scream #screaming #screams

The past screams louder than the future. The future is mute, but it’s not deaf.
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— Jarod Kintz

#future #life #mute #past #scream

Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on. ↗

— Jo Brand

#along #anything #because #children #comes

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#day #every #every day #fairly #inspired

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. ↗

— David Mallet

#mournful #owl #screams #solitary #wailing