Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.
– Alice Hoffman
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- real silence is silence without words, silence that speaks words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- real silence is silence without words, silence that speak words in silence and silence that talks better than words – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- He was withdrawing. I think it was getting harder for him to accept his fate. Like a bird in a cage, he grew silent. – Alice Hoffman
- Perhaps I was drawn to stories in which people found their true desires because I was a stranger to myself. – Alice Hoffman
- More than ever at that instant did she long for speech – speech that would conceal and protect where dangerous silence might betray. – LM Montgomery
- People expected certain things of me: assistance, silence, comfort. They had no idea who I was. – Alice Hoffman
- Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. – PseudoDionysius the Areopagite
- Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight. – Stephen Chbosky
- A moderate silence ensued. A neutral-to-slightly-positive silence. True, silence is still silence, except when you think about it too much. – Haruki Murakami
- Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be. – Jessica Kissner
- A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together. – Margaret Atwood
- Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire. – Abbie Hoffman
- Shhhhhhhh….. Be silent. Silence your mind and listen…. Let the voice of your soul echo and shiiiiine! – Angie karan
- When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
- A dull speech which is full of truths is much more brilliant than an eloquent speech which is full of lies! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Listen,listen with your eyes,and your lips.Listen with your skin, and your blood.Can you hear us,at the edges? – Emmanuelle de Maupassant
- The world is full of shitheads, Rhea. Don’t listen to them-”listen to me. And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen. – Jennifer Egan
- Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people’s houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. – Alice Hoffman
- Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. – Alice Hoffman
- Because we were Russian, sadness came naturally to us. But so did reading. In my family, a book was a life raft. – Alice Hoffman
- Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn’t returned. – Alice Hoffman
- Mean people are meaningless. – Alice Hoffman
- She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He’s like a dragon, ancient and fearless. – Alice Hoffman
- The best way to die is when your living – Alice Hoffman
- …never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it’s own. – Alice Hoffman
- I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream. – Alice Hoffman
- There is the outside of a story, and the inside of a story… One is the fruit and may be delicious, but the other is the seed. – Alice Hoffman
- That was the sorrow of it. He saw the light but never expected the darkness. – Alice Hoffman
- My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. – Alice Hoffman
- Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn’t have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of the species. – Alice Hoffman
- …early on Monday evening, when the sky was the color of a velvet ribbon falling over the hills. – Alice Hoffman
- I understood that fate could not be eluded forever; it came on leathery wings, swooping through the darkness like the bats in the orchards. – Alice Hoffman
- Feelings are best left concealed. They can bite you if you’re not careful. They can eat you alive. – Alice Hoffman
- In a novel, you’ll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You’ll find shelter there. – Alice Hoffman
- You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you. – Alice Hoffman
- There seemed to be handfuls of stars tossed right above the rooftops in Haddan, keeping the town still alight at midnight. – Alice Hoffman
- It had made her too helpless, because that’s what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything. – Alice Hoffman