Relationships Quote by Nick Harkaway

“Both boys stayed very quiet for a few minutes, neither one wanting to say anything he might regret.”

— John Boyne

“It was as if he didn't want other people to talk to him, he was afraid that their chattering voices would drown out the…

— Fredrik Backman

“We can just talk,' he says. Like a boy.”

— Karen Foxlee

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

— Samuel R. Delany

“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

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

— Jessie Atkin

“It was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else.”

— Alexandra Bracken

“I thought he was a quiet guy. Then I found out he is a mute, and then I knew he was a quiet guy.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“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

“… just to break the silence. He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.”

— Amos Oz

“Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of…

— Alice Hoffman