Quote by Penelope Lively Download Open image ““When you are able to be with a person and there is no need to talk, something has happened.”” — Penelope Lively ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There's no need for us to talk. That's how it's like with us. We talk without speaking.” — Yvonne Prinz Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, you need no talk at all. The comfort of the silence, and the precious presence of a loved one is all that you… — Anoosha Afeef Copy Share Image
“There is a moment when you realise that no more conversation will fix it. No waiting for the right time. Once clarity arrives, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It’s a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk.” — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“You know you know you have a great friend when you can go months or even years without speaking and as soon as you… — Jodie Beau Copy Share Image
“Let people talk until they'll run out of things to say, And eventually, they will soon start talking about each other” — Charmaine J. Forde Copy Share Image
“trouble with people is, they always think they have to talk.” — Jane Stanton Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Let people talk, eventually they will run out of things to say, In due time, they will soon start talking about each other” — Charmaine J. Forde Copy Share Image
“If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular… — A. Manette Ansay Copy Share Image
“Whenever there is something that needs to be said, the right moment never seems to come.” — Sarah Richards Copy Share Image
“I know quite well why I became a historian… It was because dissension was frowned upon when I was a child: 'Don't argue, Claudia,'… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“The question is, shall it or shall it not be linear history. I've always thought a kaleidoscopic view might be an interesting heresey. Shake… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“He felt marvellously conscious of the moment, of here and now, of this day.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“But her thoughts are often of the past. That evanescent, pervasive, slippery internal landscape known to no one else, that vast accretion of data… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“I have a print - you can buy them at the Victoria and Albert Museum - of a photograph of the village street of… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image