Language Quote by Jenny B. Jones

“We sit in silence, the air between bristling with words unsaid.”

— Christina Baker Kline

“Silence fueled anxieties, gave them their true power. Expressing them aloud was a way of releasing that tension, of letting go, if only for…

— James Rollins

“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

“And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.”

— Kate Mosse

“The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...”

— Rudyard Kipling

“Some element in the air between us changed, as though a wind that had been blowing gently had come to an abrupt stillness.”

— Tan Twan Eng

“Also the air: the air is full of sighs and cries. These are never lost: if you listen carefully, with a sympathetic ear, you…

— J.M. Coetzee

“Profound silence; silence so deep that even their breathings were conspicuous in the hush.”

— Mark Twain

“The air inside the cabin swirled with stale memories, echoes of once-familiar voices trapped within, awaiting her coming to free them.”

— Lori Benton

“Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”

— Jodi Picoult