Long silence Quote by Howard Norman

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”

— Spencer Gordon

“My silence made her say things she didn't need to say..”

— Hisham Matar

“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle with words.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk…

— Morgan Matson

“What was there to say? It was a matter of silences, not words.”

— Don DeLillo

“She’d just spent the last hours engaged in endless small talk. Now, when it mattered so much, she seemed to have no words to…

— Penn Williamson

“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said,…

— Amy Tan

“He and Alexis had met on his first day in Velik Tor. He had been eleven, she ten. They had bonded almost instantly, and…

— S.G. Night

“The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“My speech impediment had been absent for some time now—four months and six days. I’d almost imagined myself cured. So when Mother swept into…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“We held each other the entire night, no words spoken but the still, silent night uttered so much.”

— Fisher Amelie

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick