“For the first time in memory, the silence between them wasn’t filled with layers upon layers of lies.”
“All those layers of silence upon silence.”
“The room was filled with a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence...”
“Time seems to overlap, like the shadows of leave pressing down on other leave, layer upon layer.”
“intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When”
“Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.”