“As if he was beating me to the punch, his words living forever, while I was left speechless, no rebuttal, no words left to say.”

“The night was a typewriter key that got stuck and kept punching all the letters on top of the others until all that was left was a black blob. No word, no letter, no message in the night for me.”

“I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me”

“He looked up at me, stuttered a few times, and then seemed to forget what he was saying altogether. I didn't say anything, or act surprised that he stopped talking. I just stared at him, feeling my heart pounding in my throat. "Wow." He said. "What?""You just left me speechless.”

“If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.”

“He was struck dumb at the words though he should not be surprised; his wife kept him in a perpetual state of speechlessness.”