Everything makes love with silence. They promised me a…

“I want you to remember something,” she says after a long, tense silence. “What’s that?”“You promised to treat me like you would any other…

— M.S. Force

“There’s no neutrality in a burning house. Silence may feel safe, but it still smells of smoke.”

— Lawrence Nault

“Her voice had been the only sound in the room for ten minutes or more, and it had been continuous. She seemed keenly aware…

— Richard Yates

“Tom thought back to the imposing, empty house: to the silence that deadened every room with a subtly different pitch; to the kitchen smelling…

— M.L. Stedman

The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

— Khalil Gibran

“When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“If you can be quiet, you’re more than welcome to stay in my House of Silence. Bring your own bubblegum ice cream. 
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— Jarod Kintz

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best.

— Britney Spears

“When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

— Mike Nichols

...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

— Colum McCann

“Ideas love silence. When you are silent, ideas come to knock on the door of your heart.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

— Mark Z. Danielewski

At least if I keep my love a secret, he and I can still have this wonderful, odd, exciting relationship where I love him…

— Katy Evans

“Love is silence multiplied by noise and divided by two.”

— Jarod Kintz