Quote by Mary Renault

“...one did not need to speak much, only to say what was worth hearing when one did.”

— Shelley Adina

“I could feel a million reasons, but there were no words to express them.”

— Jerry Spinelli

“I was too stubborn to really take on what she was saying. But we're all guilty sometimes of only listening to what we want…

— Lesley Pearse

“With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew…

— Denis Johnson

“We were speaking in feelings. Words were not enough.”

— Lou Ann Walker

“It wasn't so much that I couldn't talk about it; it was that I didn't want to. Not right then. I knew myself well…

— Alexandra Bracken

“It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.”

— Witi Ihimaera

“He may have had all the right reasons, but that didn’t mean we weren’t going to have a serious talk later—as”

— E.J. Stevens

“There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He spoke in incomplete sentences, as though he had so much he wanted to say that he needed to leave out some of the…

— Diane Chamberlain

“Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.”

— Chris Murray

“For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying--what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must simply say what…

— Virginia Woolf