“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
Variant: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.
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Ernest Hemingway501
American author and journalist 1899–1961Related quotes
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic
"A Way to Love God", New and Selected Poems 1923–1985 (1985)
Context: I cannot recall what I started to tell you, but at least
I can say how night-long I have lain under the stars and
Heard mountains moan in their sleep. By daylight,
They remember nothing, and go about their lawful occasions
Of not going anywhere except in slow disintegration. At night
They remember, however, that there is something they cannot remember.
So moan. Their's is the perfected pain of conscience that
Of forgetting the crime, and I hope you have not suffered it. I have.
“You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.”
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
Exiles (1915), Act II http://www.robotwisdom.com/jaj/exiles2.html
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess
Variant: Will-"
"I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and when you're this close to me, I forget who you are. I forget you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.
Source: Clockwork Princess
Sherman Alexie book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Source: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
“It was so darn quiet you could hear your hair grow.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Farmer in the Sky
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 13, “Johnny Appleseed” (p. 131)
