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"Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me."
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts."
"She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the beginning she told him that if it ever happened again, she would leave him. He swore that it wouldn't and she believed him. But it only got worse after that, like when his dinner was cold, or when she mentioned that she'd visited with one of the neighbors who was walking by with his dog. She just chatted with him, but that night, her husband threw her into a mirror."
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded."
"When you are truly silent, the whole existence speaks to you."
"It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights."
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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"Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."
"It's rude to stare, but the great thing about staring at a sedated person is that they don't know you're doing it."
"He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years."
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