Quote by Simon Mawer

“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”

— Jodi Picoult

“There was thin, reverberating silence; the sort of delicately plucked note that isn’t heard, but felt in the heart.”

— Kirsty Eagar

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

— Georges Rodenbach

“It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. … The silence seemed to be trying to tell him…

— Haruki Murakami

“They did not look at each other. They did not say a word to each other... They knew that talk is meaningless when a…

— Jack Schaefer

“She waited for him to say something more. The silence held ciphers of truths that lingered between them, written in a script that neither…

— Elise Kova

“The music was Tamlin’s fingers strumming my body; it was the gold in his eyes and the twist of his smile. It was that…

— Sarah J. Maas

“In the silence, nothing was fragmented. There were no separate strands to gather together, to fumble, to complete for attention. In the silence, all…

— Geoff Ryman

“Every silence says something: the silence between words, between notes in music and between people.”

— Nathalie Abi-Ezzi

“Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could.”

— Wendelin Van Draanen

“The silence that hung between them was thick: it felt like it had its own pulse, its own insidious intentions.”

— Lauren Gilley

“He looked up and saw her and his breath stopped in his throat. His hands stopped too, still spread above the keyboard. Harpsichord notes…

— Thomas Harris