“Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.”

“For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.”

“Said the straight man to the late man Where have you been I've been here and I've been there And I've been in betweenI talk to the wind My words are all carried away I talk to the wind The wind does not hear The wind cannot hear”

“It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence, and smell the solitude, and I wanted it more than I have ever wanted anything before.”

“her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.”

“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured. If Phillip was with her, the solitude she needed would be shattered, and along with it whatever wondrous thing might have come her way if she had been alone.”