Air Quote by Robin Hobb

The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness,…

— Kim Harrison

I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed…

— Jojo Moyes

Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect…

— Elliot Perlman

She used to whispers words that my heart and soul could hear. Now, her silence is deafening.

— Anonymous

She was a keen observer, a precise user of language, sharp-tongued and funny. She could stir your emotions. Yes, really, that's what she was…

— Haruki Murakami

She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with…

— Steve Martin

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I…

— Donald Miller

“When I spoke to her, I had the feeling that her thoughts had been nourished in wide-open spaces where talk was sparse and silence…

— Siri Hustvedt

“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she…

— Donna Tartt

“In her eyes and in her touch I felt the echoes of my words.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Talking with her was like listening to a ballad on a radio station that fades in and out as you drive, sometimes clear and…

— Jeff Sharlet

She opened her mouth but did not immediately speak, and I felt, simultaneously, the impulse to coax the words from her and the impulse…

— Curtis Sittenfeld