Quote by Carson McCullers

Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

— Carson McCullers

“I thought he was a quiet guy. Then I found out he is a mute, and then I knew he was a quiet guy.”

— Jarod Kintz

“In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.”

— Carson McCullers

“I think I speak for all the mutes when I say, “Silence is equality.” I’m sure the deaf would agree too.”

— Jarod Kintz

“It's easier for the mute person to envy in silence.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“There's a frightful muteness that dwells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he…

— Nicole Krauss

“Murdering a mute to silence him is overkill.”

— Jarod Kintz

“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty…

— Nicole Krauss

“Apparently my inner self is mute.”

— Kim Harrington

“Why was it that silence sometimes felt like a physical thing with a weight of its own?”

— Mary Balogh