Quotes About Silence

I don't say anything and I feel awful. I tell somebody and I feel worse. I'm having trouble finding a middle ground.

It was the most eloquent silence I ever heard.

Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie.

He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Pertrakis.I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

thoughts hidden there? If she can, what will she do? Call the cops? Send me to the nuthouse? Do I want her to? I just want to sleep. The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away. It won't. I'll need brain surgery to cut it out of my head. Maybe I should wait until David Petrakis is a doctor, let him do it.

The whole point of not talking about it, of silencing the memory, is to make it go away.

She says suicide is for cowards. This is an uglynasty Momside. She bought a book about it. Tough love. Sour sugar. Barbed velvet. Silent talk. She leaves the book on the back of the toilet to educate me. She has figured out that I don't say too much. It bugs her.

So why does everyone make such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

I can never tell with moments of silence. They're so... silent. Empty.

The cops say that thing:'anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone make such a hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

Laurie Halse Anderson

They keep asking questions like "What is wrong with you?" and "Do you think this is cute?" How can I answer? I don't have to. They don't want to hear anything I have to say.

The suffragettes were all about speaking up, screaming for their rights. You can't speak up for your right to be silent.

I learned then that words had such power some must never be spoken and was thus robbed of both tongue and the truth.

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.   Mr.

I didn't speak up when that boy raped me, instead I scalded myself in the shower and turned me into the ghost of the girl I once was, my biggest fear being that my father, no stranger to gaming with the devil, would kill that boy and it would be my fault.

He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.

You can't speak up for your right to be silent, that's letting the bad guys win.

Laurie Halse Anderson

It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.

They keep asking questions like 'What is wrong with you?' and 'Do you think this is cute?' How can I answer? I don't have to. They don't want to hear anything I have to say.

He says a million things without saying a word I have never head a more eloquent silence -Melinda

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

David stares at Mr. Neck, looks at the flag for a minute, then picks up his books and walks out of the room. He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.