Quote by Milton Steinberg

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

— Don DeLillo

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

— Shelley Adina

“And then there were none.”

— Agatha Christie

“People talked. Let them talk. Nothing I could do to stop them. They knew the thousand words, but they didn't know the rest of…

— Jennifer Brown

“The conversations were important; not the words spoken during them.”

— Lindy Zart

“But neither of them dared speak of it, and not having expressed the one thing that occupied their thoughts, whatever they said rang false.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“All the things she couldn’t say, the things no one wanted to hear.”

— Spencer Gordon

“It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to…

— Deb Caletti

“...that it was so completely their own that it would have been pointless to even try to speak of it to someone else.”

— Ann Patchett

“Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now…

— Carson McCullers

“Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.”

— Alan Bradley

“But there were some things they didn’t agree on.”

— Stan Berenstain