“She could not understand how she was here, when she had never said yes to being brought anywhere. She could not remember speaking to him, much less agreeing. She was beginning to learn the danger of silence, and that someone who wishes to hear a yes will not go out of his way to listen for a no.”
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“Our silences were our real conversations. Our eyes were our real language.”
“The house was quiet when he got inside. Why wouldn't it be? He was alone.”
“At times it is what we do not say, or not saying a thing, that says a lot about us.”
“No sound is more ominous than the silence of a patient man.”
“You find peace in the confinement of silence.”