“The air between them began to settle into a silence. Awkward, yet softly exciting. Like an unexpected snow day.”
“These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences.”
“Leave a silence alone, no matter how awkward it felt. Invariably the other person filled it, often with something unexpected.”
“Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.”
“Insert the biggest, most awkward silence in the history of big awkward silences.”
“We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.”