Quote by Truman Capote

“Regarding myself as a mere echo, Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .”

— Anna Akhmatova

“I don't want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words' echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound…

— Rilke, Rainer Maria

“you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said.”

— Colum McCann

“Be the voice, not the echo.”

— Pete Sprankle

“...because silence, too, has an echo, hollower and longer-lasting than the reverberations of any sound.”

— Salman Rushdie

“But words don’t work that way. Once heard, they can’t ever be taken back. All they can do is echo.”

— Emma Chase

“Though I knew how this failure would hurt you, I had to fold like a grey moth and let go. You could not believe…

— Margaret Atwood

“Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?”

— Carl Sandburg

“There are voices you can silence.”

— Amy Reed

“No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered…

— Susan Hill

“maybe she knew who my mother was and figured that no one can change the sound of an echo.”

— Allen Eskens

“Out of silence I begin to hear the voices of characters whispering snippets of a story to me.”

— Chuck Waldron