“Everything and all of them were being rattled around like peas inside an enormous rattle that was being rattled by a mad giant who refused to stop.”
“To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside?Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.”
“Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.”
“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. ”
“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”
“the moon rattles like a fragment of angry candy”