“With me he [Lamin] would wait till I finished each sentence, and leave long gaps of silence before he replied, silences I came to think of as conversational graveyards, where anything awkward or unpleasant I might have presented to him was sent to be buried.”
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“My silence is the result of your breakdown and the lack of trust at home, mum.”
“Silence is not always golden. It can be a signal that a bottled anger is about to explode.”