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  1. Paulo Coelho _ 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.
    book-quotesufferingtruthsilence

  2. Dan Simmons _ 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.
    book-quotesilencesonnets

  3. Karen Armstrong _ 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.
    book-quotesilence

  4. Nicole Krauss _ 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.
    book-quotesilencewordsspeech

  5. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs.
    book-quotesilenceeerie

  6. Arthur Conan Doyle _ The Complete Sherlock Holmes

    You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
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  7. L.M. Montgomery _ 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.
    book-quotesilence

  8. Mark Haddon _ 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.
    book-quotesilenceperspectiverain

  9. Khaled Hosseini _ The Kite Runner

    It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under.
    book-quotesilencequietmutism

  10. Khaled Hosseini _ The Kite Runner

    Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir
    book-quotesilencequiettranquility

  11. Madeleine L'Engle _ A Wrinkle in Time

    Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.
    book-quotesilencequiet

  12. Henri J.M. Nouwen _ Bread for the Journey: A

    Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, 'Prove that you are a good person.' Another voice says, 'You'd better be ashamed of yourself.' There also is a voice that says, 'Nobody really cares about you,' and one that says, 'Be sure to become successful, popular, and powerful.' But underneath all these often very noisy voices is a still, small voice that says, 'You are my Beloved, my favor rests on you.' That's the voice we need most of all to hear. To hear that voice, however, requires special effort; it requires solitude, silence, and a strong determination to listen.That's what prayer is. It is listening to the voice that calls us 'my Beloved'.
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