“ঠিক সময়ে ঠিক কথা বলার দাম এক টাকা, ঠিক সময়ে চুপ করে থাকার দাম দু'টাকা।”
“Still the silence raged and echoed around her.
Still she felt nothing.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“Rhythmic rain drops drum
Music of a thousand beats
Silenced by the sun”
“This is how silence works in families: it means questions go unanswered, timelines are unclear, and the details of a child's life are a mystery that will not be resolved.”
Source: And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir – A Poignant and Inspiring Coming-of-Age Story About Mothers and Daughters
“In the dim, thick silence, Nesta lingered by the table against the wall near her front door. Slid her hand into her pocket and pulled out the folded banknote.
Enough for three months' rent.
She tried and failed to muster the shame. But nothing came. Nothing at all.
There was anger, occasionally. Sharp, hot anger that sliced her.
But most of the time it was silence.
Ringing, droning silence.
She hadn't felt anything in months. Had days when she didn't really know where she was or what she'd done. They passed swiftly and yet dripped by.
So did the months. She'd blinked, and winter had fallen. Blinked, and her body had turned too thin. As hollow as she felt.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“To such a height was he lifted, that without regret he could now have told her that he was her worshipper too. But what was the use of telling her? For all the wonderful things had happened.”
Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread
“Conceal your wounds when you have any; silence is the last joy of the unhappy. Beware of giving anyone the clue to your griefs; the curious suck our tears as flies suck the blood of a wounded hart.”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voices of animals and people both common and divine.”
Source: Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
“I was the Book and the Cauldron and sound and silence.
I was a living river through which one flowed into the other, eddying and ebbing, over and over, a tide with no end or beginning.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“Silence is like the eye of the storm which is absolutely calm in spite of the powerful whirlwind of energy around it.”
Source: Mindfulness in 8 Days: How to find inner peace in a world of stress and anxiety