Quavering Voice Quotes

#1. Gerti didn't ask for help." Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. "It was my fault."
"So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to."
"So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

Shannon Hale

#2. Making a sound that was both a laugh and a sob, Kellan stared into his son's eyes. "Hey, little man," he whispered. "I'm your dad, and I love you ... so much." Voice quavering, he added, "I'm so glad you're here.

S.C. Stephens

#3. It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.

Ted Cruz

#4. I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.

Ryan Lee

#5. Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

Faraaz Kazi

#6. Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

Cassandra Clare

#7. Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

Saint Basil

#8. Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.

Milorad Pavic

#9. I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

John L. Lewis

#10. What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [ ... ] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.

Rachel Vincent

#11. We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

#12. The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. Written, preserved, and passed on to us. What an indescribable blessing it is for us

Janette Oke

#14. A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

#15. Why - for us and only us - is the other side of free will and free spirits an assault on our bodies?

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#16. I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

J.K. Rowling

#17. A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives.

Vicky McClure