“She wasn't much of a talker when there was nothing to say.”
“Betsy did not answer. She was a talker, her family always said, but sometimes when she most wanted to talk she couldn't say a word.”
“Eva was a between-the-lines talker. She left the sayable unsaid and said what she meant without saying it.”
“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
“I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.”
“She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was proof that it worked.”