“Maybe life is just a quiet affair, interspersed with moments of great happiness and grief. Maybe it is the quiet that needs to emerge again, to balance the current run of craziness.”
“Maybe it was I who needed to learn how to be quiet instead of cluttering the moment with too many words.”
“Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul.”
“Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.”
“A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.”
“It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”