Quote by Alice Sebold

But she was waiting patiently. She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything. At seventy she had come to believe in time…

— Alice Sebold

She knew few words and believed in none.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as…

— Marita Bonner

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.

— Sarah Dessen

Galinda didn't often stop to consider whether she believed in what she said or not; the whole point of conversations was flow.

— Gregory Maguire

Unfortunately, she lived to tell about it.

— Tom Arnold

She did not speak for speech was unknown to her.

— Pablo Neruda

she considered the possibility of telling her about everything that was happening, but then she changed her mind; people never learn anything by being…

— Paulo Coelho

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

— Kristin Hannah

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

— Anonymous

It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.

— Miranda July

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh,…

— Toni Morrison