Quotes About Silence

WELL THEN FINE, she would just keep her visions to herself. Until she had another great one, anyway.

It was a little unsettling how quiet the skies were. Clay

Tsunami lashed her tail so hard she nearly fell off the branch. "General, may I take a nap? General, I need a papaya! General, my claws are tired! General, look, a butterfly! SOMEBODY IS GETTING STABBED IN THE FACE IF YOU DON'T SHUT UP.

I can hear others, but no one else can hear me. Makes for a lot of very boring, one-sided conversations. She

Not thinking sounded pretty appealing right now.

You sound like Starflight," Clay said. "Will there be a test at the end of this lecture?" "He wouldn't talk to me, by the way," she said. "Not even when I asked

That's a lot of thoughts," he said. "Weren't you paralyzingly shy at one point? What happened to that unobtrusive, quiet dragon?" "It turns out it's actually much easier to talk to you when I can't hear what you're thinking," Moon admitted,

She's here," she whispered. "She's in Icicle's mind. Shhhh.

Shield your thoughts? Silence the voices? By all the moons, why has nobody trained you to step outside your visions?

Maybe you should shut your trap," Sundew suggested. "BurrMRRBRRGRR,

Keep your mouth shut and don't get in the way." "As if I would!" Fatespeaker said happily, immediately tripping Starflight with her tail.

Nnnmph vmmy nnnmph,

YOUUUSHH HA HAA SO SHH,

Oooo. What a beautiful image. Queen Diamond with a chain of silver circles wound around her snout and frozen to her scales. He closed his eyes and imagined the blissful quiet.

The rules: Nobody mentions the abyss. Nobody goes near the abyss. Everyone pretends the abyss does not exist anymore. Everyone acts like they hear absolutely zero whispers and feel zero weirdness coming from the creepy big dark hole.)

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

All too often in life, we see people do what we want them to do and we say nothing, assuming that the behavior has become natural for them, an easy standard.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth.

Since then he has said nothing and although from time to time I have thrown out what I hope were delicate hints and suggestions he has not seemed to notice them; and with a man Lucifer could not hold a book, bell or candle to for pride I cannot raise the subject directly.

saying nothing with the practiced ease of a politician

It was such places as this, such moments that he loved above all else in life; she knew that, and she also knew that he loved them more if she could be there to experience them with him. And although he was aware that the very silences and emptinesses that touched his soul terrified her, he could not bear to be reminded of that. It was as if always he held the fresh hope that she, too, would be touched in the same way as he by solitude and the proximity to infinite things.

You know, said Port, and his voice sounded unreal, as voices are likely to do after a long pause in an utterly silent spot, the sky here's very strange. I often have the sensation when I look at it that it's a solid thing up there, protecting us from what's behind. Kit shuddered slightly as she said: From behind? Yes. But what is behind? Her voice was very small. Nothing, I suppose. Just darkness. Absolute night.

When they had gone the Moungari fell silent, to wait through the cold hours for the sun that would bring first warmth, then heat, thirst, fire, visions. The next night he did not know where he was, did not feel the cold. The wind blew dust along the ground into his mouth as he sang.

What words are there to tell how long a night can be?