Sighing Quotes

“Margo shushing Alice, who had to sigh theatrically every time Cary Grant did a Cary Grant thing.”
― Gregory Blake Smith, The Maze at Windermere

“A friend writes of the numbing effects of humming and it returns you to your own sigh. It's no longer audible. You've grown into it. Some call it aging--an internalized liquid smoke blurring ordinary ache.”
― Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric

“There's a sigh. An exhale. When Lily was younger, in her sleep she would make a similar noise, usually right before her legs would start racing, the preamble to a beautiful dream about chasing squirrels or birds or pounding the warm sand on an endless golden beach. I don't know why, but I think of Ethan Hawke answering the standard questionnaire inspired by Bernard Pivot that ended every episode of Inside the Actors Studio:
"What sound or noise do you love?"
Puppies sighing, Ethan had said.
Yes! Such a wonderful juxtaposition, signing puppies. As if warm, sleeping puppies felt anything lamentable or had weariness or exasperations to sign over. And yet they sighed all the time! Exhalations of sweet, innocent breath. But this sign is different. Subtly. To the untrained ear it might not be noticeable, but I know Lily about as well as I think it's possible to know another living thing, so I notice it. .There's a heaviness to it. A creakiness. There are cares in her world: there is weight on her shoulders.”
― Steven Rowley