14 Orson Scott Card Quotes on Silence

Orson Scott Card quotes on silence

85. 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

98. My, but I miss the days when we never talked to each other for weeks at a time

154. 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.

158. 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.

244. 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.

349. Better to listen than speak at a time like this.

447. What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?

456. 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

471. There are many things that men and women do not say, because to say them would only bring unhappiness

541. In Vanya's family, silence had never meant surrender, only tactical retreat

570. As long as no one said anything, he could pretend that it was love. That she felt about him as he felt about her

797. Damn this girl for her silence, for her seeing eyes

834. Tuthmose heard this in silence. Because the idea comforted him? Or because he hated hearing from her, once again, that he was wrong?

1104. Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.

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