#silence

Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

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Quick question.” Puck’s voice broke the silence. “Did anyone think to bring a can of Off? ↗

— Julie Kagawa

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Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch #shower #silence

Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my shoulders and searching my face intently. "Please let it be yes," he said with a gravelly edge. "Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

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You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No. ↗

— Alison McGhee

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I have never heard a more eloquent silence. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

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Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. ↗

— Rumi

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Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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