Air Quote by Anonymous

“She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d…

— Carla H Krueger

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“If silence is the admission of guilt, then she must be really guilty, because last night I asked her a question and instead of…

— Jarod Kintz

Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd…

— Jonathan Franzen

“How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?”

— Faraaz Kazi

“She was ashamed. She would not--she would not--be frightened of him: he was what he was, and he had made a promise he would…

— Robin McKinley

She, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt for him, whilst, as a matter of fact, she completely misunderstood him

— Anonymous

Her hearing was keener than his, and she heard silences he was unaware of.

— D. M. Thomas

“To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

She lived in fear of his shifting moods, his volatile temperament, his insistence on steering even mundane exchanges down a confrontational path that, on…

— Khaled Hosseini

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so,…

— Anonymous