Quotes About Silence

Lia," he whispered. "Lia." And I heard the words I love you, even if he didn't say them.

Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.

Some last words should never be said.

He could silence the devil with a whisper.

except for the muffled strum of her fingers against metal, the house is still, quiet, but then she hears another sound, this one coming from deep within. a numbing furrow slides through her soul, sliding into her brain, a furrow that seperates one part of her heart from the other. and then it goes quiet agani.

Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them. " - Pg 207

Because too little talk frightens people and prompts questions. They're afraid of what goes on in a silent mind. As maybe they should be.

Hear the language that isn't spoken, Kazi, the breaths, the pauses, the fisted hands, the vacant stares, the twitches and tears, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

Listen. Hear the language that isn't spoken, for everyone can hear spoken words, but only a few can hear the heart that beats behind them.

The house is still, like the breath has been punched out of it.

No one disobeyed his commands. He could silence the devil with a whisper.

The silence stretched, and I heard a chain that was no longer there, jingling. I felt Jase holding me in a river, keeping my head above the water... If he had been cruel back then, his lies now would hurt me less.

I never want another word about Lia to pass from your lips. And if one word should escape, even by chance, I'll stuff every coin that's in your greedy little palm down your throat right before I cut out your tongue. Do you understand me, Enzo?

He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world.

Luella, she kept gettin' paler and paler, and she never took her eyes off my face. There was somethin' awful about the way she looked at me and never spoke a word.

the room Ruby heard

De duchessa is dood. - Silvia

It's been my experience that presence and silence are most helpful," she says. "Be there without judgment or advice to listen when he is ready to talk.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

That sounds like a pretty good place I said for something to say.' So much of what he said required no response, but if no one said anything, his words just hung there. The Last Days of California

Recently I realized that silent is an anagram for listen. It is the voice that comes from the silence that the writer or artist must listen to.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

Close your mouth, Michael; we are not a codfish.

Laurie stood casting his long shadow on the room behind him, silent in a grief and wonder too deep for tears, that life was so divided and irreconcilable, and the good so implacably the enemy of the best.