Stay Silent Quote by Shirley Hazzard

“We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”

— Sherman Alexie

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“there was a time when this home was her domain. Sometimes she felt proud of it, sometimes she felt tied to it, but whether…

— Natalia Sylvester

“Houses were a particular nightmare for her, bringing into play two of the most conflicting forces in her nature: absolute dependence on living in…

— Caroline Moorehead

“When she got control of herself a few minutes later, she realized that in his arms she felt almost what she had in her…

— L.J. Smith

“It is odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it.”

— Dodie Smith

“He felt beyond himself. He felt for the first time in his adult life a shadow of fear in his heart--fear for her, for…

— Shana Abé

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“Day by day, the constant solitude drove him deeper inside himself, with only his thoughts for companions. Soon he might lose the capacity for…

— Sondra Allan Carr

“Home is that place where One Self feels that, that is His/Her Place.”

— Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela

“She rattled around that huge house, growing more and more used to being on her own, resenting his presence more and more when he…

— Jane Green