Quote by John Boyne

“There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.”

— Brock Clarke

“He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence,…

— Nick Harkaway

“He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretending he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could…

— Megan Hart

“But the boy only muttered bitterly,

— Pearl S. Buck

“Along the way, they didn't say much, but their relationship has reached that stage where silence is comfortable, not threatening. Silence only harms when…

— David Levithan

“He wanted to talk and had nothing to say.”

— Samuel R. Delany

“Silence was not good.”

— Rose Wynters

“them fell silent. Dennison noticed his friend also looked worried and asked what was wrong. As they talked further, each boy admitted being anxious…

— Marlene Bateman Sullivan

“He groaned as if frustrated and then whispered almost so quietly I didn’t hear him, “I’m going to keep you.”

— Rachel Higginson

“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

“They didn’t talk much, but their silence was companionable.”

— Stephanie Perkins

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

— Don DeLillo