Quotes About Silence

Silence reigned. Well, except for Mallory's thundering heartbeat. She was in an attic loft, flat beneath her Mr. Wrong. Her common sense was screaming flee! But her secret inner bad girl was screaming oh please can't we have him? Just once? -Mallory

He didn't say a word about the fact that her Vespa was nowhere in sight. You know what this means, right? he asked. You're at my mercy. He grinned and she sighed. One hundred thousand sperm and he'd been the fastest. -Chloe about Todd

You have the right to remain silent. Otherwise, anything you say might be misquoted and used against you.

Opening my mouth never works as well as keeping it shut and minding my own business." Hud

Maybe you were frisking her, Ethan suggested with a smile. In return, Jacob suggested something with his middle finger. Huh. Again with the no comment, Ethan noted. Maybe she wore out your tongue?

She was thinking of his mouth on hers. Which seemed only fair since he'd given a lot of thought to the same thing. "'Night," she whispered. "Night," he whispered back. And yet neither of them moved.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

Hush, Harry. Or you'll go to the special hell. I blinked at that, confused. I'm not supposed to be the guy who doesn't get the reference joke, dammit.

The worst lies are almost always silence—or else truth, tainted with just enough deception to rot it to the core.

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

hardly a man ever made a fool of himself by keeping his bloody mouth shut.

guard glowered at me in silence, of course. It was an act. No one could resist my bluff and manly charisma. In his heart of hearts, he wanted to be friends with me. I just knew it.

Coz, he said. You really must learn to shut your mouth from time to time. You'll taste less shoe letter.

There was a universe of pain residing in that ellipses.

The important things don't need to be said.

rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked. "I didn't kill the accountant," she said quietly. "Nicodemus said not to." That surprised me a little. If she wanted to hide herself from me, she didn't need to go to the effort of lying. All she had to do was stay silent. "He said that to all of us," I said.

Shut up, Harry." "Okay," I said. And I did. For hours. It was glorious.

I don't know what to say." His eyes wrinkled up even more heavily at the corners. "Hell, Hoss. Then don't say anything." He turned and called over his shoulder, "You get in less trouble that way!

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

There is more to the world than what a review board publishes about an officer or aeronaut, Miss Lancaster. Guard. Your. Tongue.

I glanced at Mac as though to appeal for help. Mac ignored me. Mac doesn't take sides. Mac is wise.

Miles nodded his head, but said nothing more of the Marat. "You've much on your mind.

Everyone cares about everyone else, so when you get mad and say something horrible, it hurts that much more. And too many things go unsaid. That's the worst, I think. Everyone thinks they know one another better than they probably do, so you fill in the silences with things the other person never actually said. Or thought. Or thought about saying.