Coffee shop Quote by Megan Hart

“They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a…

— Jack Schaefer

“He seemed not to know the uses of silence.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Were there socially accepted ways to curtail dull conversations?”

— Brent Weeks

“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

“No one, she had learned from experience, could stand such silence for long. If you waited long enough, someone would start talking, and more…

— Celeste Ng

“I was glad he didn’t try to come up with something encouraging to say. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of…

— Mia Sheridan

“Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.”

— Mia Sheridan

“she had made a conscious and counter-cultural choice to embrace silence and not fill it with noise”

— CJS Hayward

“Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.”

— Louis Sachar

“Some people are not really good listeners. They are merely good at keeping quiet for a long time, while someone is talking to them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“It was the worst kind of silence, but a good kind of closeness. These weren't her folk, but...they were, and maybe that meant that…

— Laini Taylor

“Silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words.”

— Diane Setterfield