Trilled Quotes

#1. The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Gold! I knew it! Just think of it, Queen. Six bags of gold!" trilled the King.
"What will you do with them, King dear?" asked the Queen.
"I won't do anything with them. I'll just have them and be rich.

Ruth Stiles Gannett

#3. Grove Health Center, trilled the woman on the end of the line. She had the vocal automisation that comes to people whose job description might as well read: 'Ceaseless repetition'.

Will Self

#4. Seminaked men!" Jacky trilled.
"With swords," Kat purred. "It is a romance novel!

P.C. Cast

#5. Sophie's mother's voice trilled from the hallway, "William and Sophie Claire, won't you please come join us in the drawing room?" "You have a drawing room?" Will asked. "She's probably been rereading Jane Austen and decided to rename the living room.

Lauren Layne

#6. Oh my goodness, Luke's massaging your arm! Isn't that sweet? Good Ava trilled in my ear.
Jump him! Rip his pants off! Bad Ava shouted in my other ear.

Kristen Ashley

#7. Let it never be said / there can be a Heaven / without fresh bread.

Glenn Logan Reitze

#8. Reflections in the heart are more pronounced than those we view in a mirror.

Dixie Waters

#9. I began as a journalist for my pocketbook and a poet for my soul.

Jane Yolen

#10. Well, well," she murmurs as I back away.
She makes a rectangle with her index fingers and thumbs and looks at my skin through it.
"You're right," she says. "The boy's a living work of art.

David Almond

#11. It seems then that instead of consumers' willingness to pay influencing market prices, the causality is somewhat reversed and it is market prices themselves that influence consumers' willingness to pay.

Dan Ariely

#12. People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.

Vivian Vande Velde