Ease Quote by Ayn Rand

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

— Sarah Addison Allen

Sometimes speech is no more than a device for saying nothing - and a neater one than silence.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she…

— Donna Tartt

“We never had conversations; we had nonversations, where we just filled empty space with words.”

— Neil Strauss

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their…

— Louise Penny

Sometimes insight into character and dialogue means being silent.

— Jeff VanderMeer

I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and…

— Tana French

“The conversations were important; not the words spoken during them.”

— Lindy Zart

“What was the point of a little voice? Weren't voices for being heard?”

— Brandon Sanderson

“But what I heard was a low insistent murmur, with pauses for reply in which no reply was made. It had a hypnotic quality…

— L.P. Hartley

“The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of…

— Stephen King

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

— Frank Herbert