“The sound she is making is the sound hearts make after they're inpieces and the fragments dissolve into the overwhelming sadness of theuniverse. The power to hear it may be the only privilege of thethoroughly dispossessed.”

“The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.”

“She never utters a sound even when she's crying, and that makes me a little sad. Doesn't seem right. When you cry, people should hear you. The world should stop.”

“The only sound I'll hear after that will be my own breathing, and the sound of the smell, of my footsteps”

“Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.”

“It's not the sound itself that bothers me; it's just the fact that it's loud. The loud sounds make it impossible to hear the soft sounds and the soft sounds are the ones you have to be afraid of.”