“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk to the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight. When you sit down beside your beloved, send the chaperones away, the old women who brought you together.”
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“There are men who fall in love with women they mistake for ideas.”
“Trust me! My silence will hurt you more than my words ever did.”
“Not all silence is rejection. Some men leave because they don’t know how to stay.”
“This isn’t a novel. It’s a remembering.”
“But I say nothing because sometimes silence is the only thing that feels good.”
“Balance is not peace — it is the eternal storm that holds peace in place.”