Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Dorothy Dix
Tag: silence
It was not a silence, just a quiet, the indrawn breath that comes before the shout.
George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quoted-books)
Il faut longtemps avoir parlé ensemble pour savoir si l’on est du même silence.
Frédéric Rossif (via embrouilla-mini)
It is necessary to have spoken together a long time to know if you are of the same silence.
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via wnq-anonymous)
I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.
And in the silence I suddenly understood the many ways a person can die but still be alive.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
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