Friendship Quote by Suzette Haden Elgin

“They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had…

— Dan Brown

“I do not know who the two old men were or what any of them were doing, but there are moments when it is…

— Lord Dunsany

“We just sat there on the sofa and looked at each other, a kind of unspoken mutual understanding filling the silence.”

— Cally Taylor

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

— Georges Rodenbach

“Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.”

— Kate White

“When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us.”

— Colum McCann

“I've had a lot of time to think and even though the silence is new, the loneliness isn't. How is it possible to have…

— Katie McGarry

“And there followed a strange, elongated couple of minutes. The kind in which two people know they have to part, and don't want to.And…

— Jojo Moyes

“Words could be empty, but what they were capable of bringing out in each other through their silence was something he’d never expected to…

— Josie Leigh

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

— Jodi Picoult

“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 sat so still that each of them might have been alone.”

— Joan G. Robinson