“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
“I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.”
“He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.”
“As the rifles were pointed at his chest he wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard. He had thought the possibilities of human silence were endless.”
“Writing is the silence of the soul struggling to be heard”
“It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.”