“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”
“Then the silence came back, that awful silence that seemed to just take over.In that silence I kept hearing what I had said--heard it repeating itself over and over again like a stuck record. I wanted it to stop. I didn't want to say things like that anymore. I was sick of that kind of lying. I wished I could say something real.But the silence was too big.”
“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.”
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.”
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
“Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.”