Beginning Quote by L. Penelope

“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end…

— Flann O'Brien

“Silence was not good.”

— Rose Wynters

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Jodi Picoult

“It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.”

— Jessie Atkin

“In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all…

— Geoff Ryman

“She tried to decide whether the silence was an empty one or a waiting one.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“There’s silence, which I enjoy although it just about never happens, not completely.”

— Spencer Quinn