Echo Quotes

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“Leo couldn't help smiling. "That could be fun."
"Fun" she said unhappily.
"Blue elephants."
"Blue elephants."
"Kiss me you fool."
"You fool.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Luke used to give me butterflies. Noah spawned mutant pterodactyls.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Her eyes met mine again. “So what does this mean for us?”
I lowered my forehead to hers. “It means you’re mine.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

“Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us."

Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.”
― rick riordan, The Mark of Athena

“Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will like you almost as much as I like me. I might even kiss you, right after I kiss my reflection!"

"Oh my gods!" the nymphs squealed.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether harsh and forbidding. And the people have no imagination. They repeat whatever one says to them . . . On my planet I had a flower; she always was the first to speak . . .”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
― Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men

“I guess what I mean is that sometimes I don't know what or who we are. Days I feel like a human being, while other days I feel more like a sound. I touch the world not as myself but as an echo of who I was. Can you hear me yet? Can you read me?”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weight dropping off. Ninety-nine... ninety-five... ninety-two... ninety. Just one more to eighty-nine. Where does it go? Where in the universe does it go?”
― Francesca Lia Block, Echo

“Strong words resonate.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.
”
― Joe Bousquet

“Echo, I can’t tell you what’s going to happen because I don’t know. I don’t hold hands in the halway or sit at anyone else’s lunch table. But I swear …
on my brothers that you’ll never be a joke to me and you’ll be much more than a girl in the backseat of my car.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“Just Echo.”
― Jun Mochizuki

“Maybe any love we ever have is an angel in whatever form...”
― Francesca Lia Block

“Echoes are more noisy than the source.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Even if I'm to be tortured, to be mistreated, to be humiliated, Echo doesn't have a right to fight against it.”
― Jun Mochizuki

“What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.
What you write today, will be echoed in the future.”
― Toba Beta

“Echo is a servant of the Nightray house.”
― Jun Mochizuki

“The worst type of letting go isn't thekicking or the screaming ,because at least then there's enough emotion left to fight.No,the worst type is the silent acceptance.The quietness of the release.That's when the person realizes they no longer give a damn.”
― Katie McGarry, Breaking the Rules

“I'm scared if I stay, I'll keep looking back and never look forward.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“love is but an echo in her head”
― David Cantor

“At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the rest, without knowing the cause, soon drowned the voices of both, with still louder lamentations of their own.”
― William Beckford, Vathek

“He squinted up at the straining muscular backs of the stone men supporing the dome. "You'll have to take me to some museums," he said. He was being the young man on the road, following the sun because gray weather made him suicidal, writing his poetry in his mind in diners and gas station men's rooms across the country. "But I did see a show of Hopper once. And I like his light. It was kind of lonely or something.

Or, "The world's a mess, it's in my kiss,' like John and Exene say," he mumbled. We were in a leather store on Market Street being punks on acid with skunk-striped hair and steel-toed boots.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Echo

“Some hearts are like haunted houses; someone dwells within, yet remains unseen. Someone weeps, but all you hear are your own echoes. A cold, as chilling as sorrow, lingers in every corner, seeping from every pore, making you numb. An eerie silence pervades, broken only by the sound of your own heartbeat.”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“Gedanken säumen die Gänge,

die du niemals gingst;

Musik übertönt Schritte,

denen du niemals folgen wirst.

Auf der Flucht vor dir selbst,

hinein in das schrille Nichts,

das du so perfekt praktizierst,

schwingst du in jeder Note mit.”
― Laura Chouette

“Thoughts line the corridors

you never walked;

music drowns out the footsteps

you will never follow.

Fleeing from yourself,

into the shrill nothingness

you practice so perfectly,

resonating in every note.”
― Laura Chouette