Family Quote by Nicole Krauss

“They didn’t talk much, but their silence was companionable.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“Solitary people make the best travellers”

— Paul Theroux

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

— Edward Dahlberg

“...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think and do…

— Julian Hawthorne

“What solitary people my family were! It amazed me that two of its members had ever gotten together to produce the others. But then…

— Benjamin Kunkel

“Mr Hawkins said nothing; the Hawkins' domestic affairs were arranged upon the principle that Fanny supplied the talk and he the silence.”

— Susanna Clarke

Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't see them…

— Helen Oyeyemi

Talk is only silence that ain't workin' well.

— Gary D. Schmidt

“Be quiet if you want to talk to silence!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“ Listen for somebody trying to talk to you… (Silence) This from that very pit of night, naked in the wasteland, the ice-wind moaning…

— Iain M. Banks

“Oh Christ! Yet another reason I didn't do relationships; women and their infinite need to talk when silence would do just as well.”

— Andrea Smith

“But how insular and pathetically solitary are all the people we know! Nor dare they tell what they think of each other when they…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson