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"And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak..."
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"When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself."
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"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."
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"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed."
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"If talk is cheap, then being silent is expensive. And many people it seems, can't afford to buy into it."
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"Sometimes you can't speak, not because others won't let you, but because you are afraid of what you'll say."
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"Great souls suffer in silence."
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"Silence is so freaking loud."
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"You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword."
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"I was working in silence seeking no appreciation or respect from any one. And it is always the silence from which great literature is born."
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"You will only find the profoundly inexpressible in profound silence."
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"But I knew very well how the persona you chose to present to the world could be very different from what was inside.I knew how grief could make you behave in ways you couldn't even begin to understand."
Grief
"Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength."
Strength
"I didn't like it when he looked at me like that. I could never escape the feeling that i was being compared to someone else."
Comparison
"A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience."
Youth
"Le Marais?''It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay."
Paris
"Don't you think it's actually harder for you . . . to adapt, I mean? Because you've done all that stuff?''Are you asking me if I wish I'd never done it?''I'm just wondering if it would have been easier for you. If you'd led a smaller life. To live like this, I mean.''I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, if you're stuck in one of these, all you have are the places n your memory that you can go to.' He smiled. It was tight, as if it cost him. 'So if you're asking me would I rather be reminiscing about the view of the caste from the minimart, or that lovely row of shops down off the roundabout, then, no. My life was just fine, thanks."
Adventure
"She is probably slightly too old to pout, but they've been going out a short enough time for it still to be cute."
Romance
"Sometimes life is a series of obstacles, a matter of putting one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, she realizes suddenly, it is simply a matter of blind faith."
Faith
"There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, when time stalls and slips, when life -real life- seems to exist at one remove."
Time
"So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark."
Love
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