The Silence Between Us Quotes

#1. She stared at me and nodded into the silence between us, as if I were still talking and making perfect sense.

Lily King

#2. 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

#3. The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

Sylvia Plath

#4. He mistook my frustration for anger towards him, which seemed to be typical for us lately. The longer the distance between a correct diagnosis, the greater the silence we shared.

Tracey Berkowitz

#5. You're the only one who can leave me completely breathless even when there's nothing but silence between us. It's 'like I can lay beside you and we not say a single word and still I have the best time.

Lisa Brooks

#6. The silence seemed to gain weight between us, his face turned hard, and his lips became a thin, grim line. He pushed me away from him. "If I wanted to drain you, Cassandra," he said, his voice deep, "it wouldn't be your blood you should be concerned about.

L.J. Kentowski

#7. Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of falling, the fear that we will never find the one story which will save us, and so we lunge for another, and we feel safe again, if only for as long as we are telling it.

Nick Flynn

#8. It's that the silence hanging between us, the awkward and painful glance we share, acknowledges that I'm sitting in his seat. I start to stand up, but Ely shakes his head and gestures for me to stay seated. "It's cool," he whispers. I watch him stride away to the elevator.

Rachel Cohn

#9. We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.

Lena Coakley

#10. While we rest in silence, pages are being written between us. Telling the story of a crazy, sad girl and a fucking dangerous, lonely guy. I

Krista Ritchie

#11. We sit in silence, all the unanswered and unasked questions thicker than the wall of glass between us.

Carolee Dean

#12. A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Jean Stafford

#13. Silence fills the sweet walk from the park. Our first encounter buzzing between us in the dark winter night. Holding your hand we know the connection, the special bond that has grown between two souls...

Benjamin McQueen

#14. In their silence they continued both to protect me and to punish me. The memory of that night was now the only tie between us, eclipsing everything else.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#15. Instead I just let the silence stretch out between us. It's the only adequate response to what he just told me, the only that does the tragedy any justice instead of patching it hastily and moving on.

Veronica Roth

#16. The fact that we are here and that I speak these words is an attempt to break that silence and bridge some of those differences between us, for it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence. And there are so many silences to be broken.

Audre Lorde

#17. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?

Tan Twan Eng

#18. The proximity between the four of us could be measured with a shoe lace but the silence suggests a meadow.

Anonymous

#19. If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.

Julian Aguon

#20. The silence stretches between us. Words aren't so easy to come by, after his admission. It takes him a while to dig some up.

Courtney Summers

#21. The silence stretched out between us as I stared at him, the tears blurring my vision as I waited for him to save me from this torment. Surely he could find a way.

Kathryn Michaels

#22. Silence fell between us. This was a common occurrence whenever we're alone. When you're comfortable with someone, you don't need to always fill the void with noise. I liked it when we would just be.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#23. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

Artur Schnabel

#24. From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme 'smile'.

Nicola Lecca

#25. A groundswell of silence moved between us.
Trouble on the surface and even deeper currents beneath.

Lisa Kleypas

#26. In the end, the only thing between us was silence.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#27. His blue eyes spoke a thousand words all rolled into a heartfelt stare. They calmed the panic inside my body. In the silence between two friends, the air carried an entire conversation. His dark lashes blinked back a vow I knew he meant more than anything. 'I promise this will not destroy us.

S.D. Hendrickson

#28. The wall of silence that had instantaneously sprung between us was strong, deafening. I could not concentrate, having a sudden surge of emotions about all relationships being mawkish and pointless.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#29. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.

Lindsey Leavitt