#silence

If you’re hungry, eat one of my new starvation pills. They taste like silence.
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— Jarod Kintz

#food #hunger #hungry #silence #silent

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. ↗

— Rumi

#love #peace #silence #soul #zen

The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#silence #friendship

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as...as..." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice. ↗

— Trenton Lee Stewart

#funny #mice #silence #sneaking #funny

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#friends #friendship #philosophy #silence #friendship

I don't have a car." His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here," I explained. "I'm on foot." "Angel," he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#funny #hush-hush #nora-and-patch #patch-cipriano #silence

How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways." "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightning - here one moment, gone the next. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#funny #hush-hush #mysterious-ways #nora-and-patch #nora-grey

Do you think they're going to buy that a guy in tacky leather chaps dances like this?" I scoffed when he twirled me back into his embrace. "Keep it up, and I'll put you in the chaps." He didn't smile, but I sensed an undercurrent of amusement. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#funny #hush-hush #leather-chaps #nora-and-patch #nora-grey

Sadness and silence, two things I keep in jars in my basement that I label “Warning: Do not open. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sadness #silence #humor