David Levithan Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Silence, Peaceful

• We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we speak the language of silence. This language gives us time to think and move. We can be here and elsewhere at the same time.

  David Levithan

  Moving, Thinking, Giving

• dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Night, Air

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.73, Macmillan

• I think they have compatible silences.

  David Levithan

  Thinking, Silence, Compatible

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

  David Levithan

  Silence, Peaceful, Darkness

• They don’t have silences together; they have noise. Mostly his.

  David Levithan

  Silence, Together, Noise

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.13, Egmont UK

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