Quote by Patricia Highsmith

“I know what it's like to look for someone to fill up the whole inside you.”

— Janet Gurtler

“You must clear out what you don't want, to make room for what you do want to arrive.”

— Bryant McGill

“Use the silence instead of filling it.”

— Jayant Chopra

“Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.”

— Cecelia Ahern

“Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.”

— Kate White

“When you have only know someone for a few hours it is difficult to now what they would like to hear.”

— Lemony Snicket

“Ask people what they want don' tell them what they need.”

— Ramit Sethi

“Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It's silence that I want to hear. That single instance where a person is bare and pure and doesn't know how to feel. the…

— Peter Tieryas

“People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”

— Walter Isaacson

“Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.”

— Sara Quin

“Maybe they had not asked for too much. Maybe they would get everything they wanted.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid