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“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“The silence in the house was painful, but I had begun to realize that half of it belonged to me.”

— Ruth Emmie Lang

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“But talking to fill the silence was how most people dealt with the kind of pressure that pervaded the room, a strain that could…

— Kit Rocha

“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.”

— Henning Mankell

“Oh my God,” I said in a hushed voice. You have to speak quietly when you’re in that kind of room.”

— Georgina Guthrie

“The house gulped in a big breath of fresh air, like some frantic drowning thing breaking the water's surface and gasping for life. It…

— Rachel Autumn Deering

“As I stood there,hushed and still,I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived…

— Daphne du Maurier

“The stillness of the house was deafening somehow—like all the sleeping people were vibrating at a frequency only he could hear: his family, ringing…

— Joshua Max Feldman

“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity so that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It lingers in this room like the voices that still echo here, some belonging to a man who’d once been alive, and the rest…

— J. Christopher Wickham