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Quotes About Silence

Ty: Just words I like. If I say them to myself, it makes my mind - quieter. Does it bother you? Kit: No. I was just curious what words you liked. Ty: It's not the meaning, just the sound. Glass, twin, apple, whisper, stars, crystal, shadow, lilt. Kit: Whisper would be one of mine, too. Cloud, secret, highway, hurricane, mirror, castle, thorns. Ty: Blackthorns.
~ Cassandra Clare
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic.
~ Cassandra Clare
Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything?
~ Cassandra Clare
Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead.
~ Cassandra Clare
When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.
~ Cassandra Clare
Then, if you love him," he said quietly, "please, Tessa, don't tell him what I just told you. Don't tell him that I love you.
~ Cassandra Clare
There's always something about true parabatai. They don't need to speak to communicate. I saw the two of you having entire conversations without saying a word. It was like that with my parabatai Will. I never had to ask Will what he was thinking. In fact, it was usually better not to ask Will what he was thinking…" That got a smile from Magnus and Catarina both.
~ Cassandra Clare
Her hand cracked across his face, a slap that rocked him back on his heels. he put his hand to his cheek, more in surprise than pain. "What the hell was that for?" "The other ten percent," she said, and they rode the rest of the way down the street in silence.
~ Cassandra Clare
I had never realized before how much you can take from someone by not allowing them the words they need to describe themselves.
~ Cassandra Clare
Because women never say what they think.
~ Cassandra Clare
Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging my head on a wall, except at least if I were banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop. - Jace Wayland.
~ Cassandra Clare
We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-" "Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured. "Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?
~ Cassandra Clare
It was Will who broke the silence. "Very well. You have me alone in the corrider-" "Yes, yes," said Tessa impatiently,"and thousands of women all over England would pay handsomely for the privilege of such an opportunity. Can we put aside the display of your wit for a moment? This is important.
~ Cassandra Clare
Don't you hate it? Not ever saying how you really feel?
~ Cassandra Clare
Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?
~ Cassandra Clare
His heart exploding paint and colours because he could not speak the words.
~ Cassandra Clare
The Silent brothers are doing nude cartwheels in the hallways
~ Cassandra Clare
Nothing in the world terrifies me more than to have the words stop coming. If I can't write, I could be of no use.
~ Cat Ellington
Sometimes it was lonely, living in silence.
~ Catherine Anderson
Blue Eyes, you will drink?" Loretta waved him away. A long silence settled over them. Then Hunter grasped her chin and forced her to look at him. " Habbe we-ich-ket , seeking death, it is not wisdom." He wedged the canteen between his knees and caught her hand, placing it on his muscular upper arm. " Ein mah-heepicut , it is yours. No harm will come to you walking in my footsteps. You will trust this Comanche, eh? It is a promise I make for you.
~ Catherine Anderson
Can I ask something?" Hunter's mouth lifted at one corner. "If I say no, you will be silent?" "Are you saying I talk too much?
~ Catherine Anderson
Sem as palavras, o que pode um espírito fazer? Sovar a lama, grunhir. Era o meu caso.
~ Catherine Clément
Sometimes it's better just to think things through than to talk about them all the time.
~ Catherine Clark
The silence of a convent at night is the silence of the grave. Too far removed from the busy world without for external sounds to penetrate the thick walls, whilst within no slamming door, nor wandering foot, nor sacrilegious voice breaks in upon the stillness, the slightest noise strikes upon the ear with a fearful distinctness. ("The Monk's Story")
~ Catherine Crowe