“Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality”

“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”

“Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.”

“I have learned to suffer in silence.”

“From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself”

“So many of the blemished didn’t know what to do with silence. Sunny’d learned that well enough at the coffee shop, where people insisted on talking, talking. To be “social,” they said, but she thought it was because they didn’t really know what to do with themselves if they had to listen to what was in their heads instead of what came out from their mouths.”