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“He knew the quiet that arrived, the blinding force of panic, and he knew too that each loss brought with it some odd, barely…

— Elizabeth Strout

“Oh. Lord have mercy. Victor wasn’t here to help with the interview. This wasn’t an interview at all. It was an audition. Her heart…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people…

— Victoria Schwab

“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They…

— Lois Lowry

“By being quiet, especially at night, he could stay up longer because they would forget he was there. Power. There was power in being…

— Jeff Wheeler

“He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The effort of explaining, even of expressing himself, had become, with the years, more and more terrifying to him. Whether from laziness or from…

— François Mauriac

“Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.”

— Alice Steinbach

“He didn't shut up when people wanted him to, he made them listen - and then he listened in return. He refused to take…

— E. Lockhart

“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

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“...it occurred to him that maybe the world wasn't so bad after all... gradually details he hadn't noticed began to come into focus... Almost…

— James Dashner