He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence…

“He spoke again: “The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes.

— Homer

We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i…

— Elizabeth Chandler

“... she spoke about stars, endlessness, and the rapture of the night...”

— Mette Jakobsen

“We sat there in silence. A masculine silence. Thick and strong. Oh, I'm full of shit. We were terrified and clueless.”

— Sherman Alexie

“They sat in silence. Feathers, Phoebe thought, searching in vain for some moment of her own that could rival the beauty and mystery of…

— Jennifer Egan

“Raskolnikov sat in silence, listening with disgust.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I did not pray for her, because prayer has no efficacy; I did not cry for her, or for myself, because only extroverts cry…

— John Fowles

“When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.”

— Colum McCann

“You responded with silence. Because those who spoke disappeared.”

— Parnaz Foroutan

“Ciaran broke the silence and spoke quietly. "She means naught to me." A tear fell down her cheek and she wiped it away. "It…

— Victoria Roberts Temptation in a Kilt

“They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had…

— Dan Brown

“A silence settled over the city, a silence that spoke of twenty thousand equally sad goodbyes: lover to lover, mother to son, and father…

— Peter Flannery

“We sat in silence for so long that I wondered if Nathan had evil twin who kept charming me.”

— Claire Farrell

“We sat in silence, holding hands until it hurt, until the sun fell away–behind the words, behind the glass and the trees”

— Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl