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“Everything was there, obvious to us both, but it all remained unsaid.”

— Gail Honeyman

“The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were…

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.”

— Philip Pullman

“They seemed to be together as one, somewhere else in a place that was lighter than air.”

— Jess C. Scott

“Two people occupying the same air. Nothing else in common. Just oxygen.”

— Dawn French

“They hung on to each other so closely that you'd think one would suffocate unless he breathed the same air as the other.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.”

— Colum McCann

“She needed air. There wasn't enough air anymore.”

— Shayne McClendon

“Then there were so many things to be said that they did not speak of any of them.”

— Milton Steinberg

“Even the air between them seemed to be dented, waiting to be straightened again.”

— Vendela Vida

“They sensed that nothing needed to be said. In silence, minds understand each other.”

— Georges Rodenbach

“Well, as to that, some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied.” He shrugged. “In the…

— George R.R. Martin