“There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.”

“There was a brief moment of weightlesssness: a balancing point between air and earth, dirt and heaven. How strange, I thought, how like the moment between sleeping and falling when everything is beautifully surreal and nothing is corporeal. How like floating towards completion. But as often happens in that time between existing in the world and fading into dreams, this moment over the edge ended with the ruthless jerk back to awareness.”

“Everyone breathes in air, but it's a wise person who knows when to use that air to speak and when to exhale in silence.”

“Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.”

“There are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”

“You're the only one who can leave me completely breathless even when there's nothing but silence between us. It's 'like I can lay beside you and we not say a single word and still I have the best time.”