Courtship Quote by Peadar Ó Guilín

“there was no stutter in his shrug.”

— Stephen King

“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

“He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“The stutter remains something memorable and good. I felt more at ease because of it. We were both somewhat vulnerable and, in our own…

— Ryan Knighton

“He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take…

— E. Lockhart

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

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Living with a stutter is like fighting in a battlefield. You either slay the words, or get slain by words.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Everybody stuttered, but the fellow who stuttered too much was called a stutterer.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I was stunned. He wasn't much of a talker in the best of times, but man, when he put his mind into it, he…

— Jay Crownover

“always struck him how much more effective silence was than words. If the effect you were after was to disconcert.”

— Louise Penny

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

— Don DeLillo

“His conversations lost some of their syllables out of shyness.”

— Michael Ondaatje