“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”
“Then he made love to her not only as if he had never experienced lovemaking before, but no one had.”
“...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
“The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about which Louis had read in books, but which he had never experienced until now.”
“He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.”
“He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.”