Quotes About Parentheses

You don't have to say anything if you don't want to. Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas—a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

et de fines rides d'expression lui encadrent la bouche, parenthèses renfermant toute une vie de mots que je n'étais pas là pour entendre.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses.

Parentheses speak More than we dare say out loud Why, oh, why is that?)