Orson Scott Card Quotes on Silence
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Not that they talked - [they] knew each other so well that there was often nothing to say. But without her there, [he] grew impatient with his own thoughts; they never came to a point, because there was no one to tell them to
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My, but I miss the days when we never talked to each other for weeks at a time
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I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.
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She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence of a person who never speaks.
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You really can't do it can you? Can't what? Can't bow down and kiss your feet? Can't shut up to save your life.
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Better to listen than speak at a time like this.
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What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
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I have no secret thoughts... Or rather, they're not secret because I've withheld them - if they're unknown, it's because no one asked
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There are many things that men and women do not say, because to say them would only bring unhappiness
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In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat
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As long as no one said anything, he could pretend that it was love. That she felt about him as he felt about her
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Damn this girl for her silence, for her seeing eyes
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Tuthmose heard this in silence. Because the idea comforted him? Or because he hated hearing from her, once again, that he was wrong?
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Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.