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Terry Pratchett
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Nation
Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.
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Tamora Pierce
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Mastiff
Just because I'm no jaw clacker doesn't mean there should be a ruction put up whenever I have sommat to say.
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Sarah J. Maas
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The Assassin's Blade
The silence was suddenly too charged, his face too beautiful in the light.
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Hermann Hesse
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Klingsors letzter Sommer
There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.
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Paulo Coelho
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The Witch of Portobello
I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something important to be said.
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Dan Simmons
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Ilium
Reading your sonnets?" asked Orphu. Mahnmut closed the book. "How'd you know? Have you taken up telepathy now that you've lost your eyes?" "Not yet," rumbled the Ionian. Orphu's great crab shell was lashed to the deck ten meters from where Mahnmut sat near the bow. "Some of your silences are more literary than others, is all.
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Karen Armstrong
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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb
I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.
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Nicole Krauss
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The History of Love
So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.
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Zadie Smith
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White Teeth
More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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L.M. Montgomery
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The Blue Castle
If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.
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Mark Haddon
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The Curious Incident of the
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
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