“Who would have imagine that the sound your life made as it disintegrated was total silence?”

“The Silence took your friend."Nobody says What’s the Silence?Satan Says, "It is a creature that came out of the walm. Large as a lake, this creature,but it’s not made of water. It is made of sound. And it feeds off of sound, or anythingthat makes sound, or anything that can hear sound. It will empty this entire world ofsound if we let it. It claims this side of town its territory. Anybody that’s out on the streetis at risk. It will eat anything that it hears and your friend must have been something itheard. He will never come back. Nobody ever escapes from the stomach of Silence.”

“Music is pleasing not only because of the sound but because of the silence that is in it: without the alternation of sound and silence there would be no rhythm.”

“What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.”

“It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine how it would sound coming from someone else. But, somehow, Logan made it sound just right.”

“It would never have crossed her mind spontaneously that somebody might actually need silence. That silence helps you to go inward, that anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.”