Belonged Quote by Ruth Emmie Lang

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The…

— Hannah Harrington

“The silence of the room was shattered with a wail of pain coming from deep within me.”

— Hitomi Kanehara

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.”

— Henning Mankell

“There was some part of me that never left that house. Rather, some part of the house that wouldn't leave me.”

— Kate Morton

“It was the sort of house that you never seem to come to the end of, and it was full of unexpected places.”

— C.S. Lewis

“It was as though the house had been left empty but a minute before and yet that minute was fraught with eternity so that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The silence in the room was so unusually quiet that the beginning of it seemed rather loud when the utter stillness of the end…

— Flann O'Brien

“Though no longer living in silence, I continued to carry pain and memories.”

— Erin Merryn

“It seemed in life, whenever you were wanted, it was for some discussion or explanation. Silence was just something to be filled.”

— Jessie Atkin

“An empty house has its own special silence. It is like a great held breath.”

— Anne Rivers Siddons

“I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.”

— Olivia Laing