Mason Cooley Quotes

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

I just don't know how to date.

The whole idea of love is scary - so is being with someone for the rest of your life and being happy with them for the rest of your life. There's lots of research to suggest that, actually, love's not really that simple.

Oh, I don't talk about Jack and me. Some things are too good to share.

Your love to me was like an unread book.

This love is silent.

I think the things that are most intimate are nameless and shapeless.

Sometimes people give away more by not saying something.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

A lot of the stuff that I do with Betty is in the eyes. A lot of the feelings that I evoke with her are unspoken, so that's been fun to play with.

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.

I'm very much a relationship guy. I like to bounce ideas off the person that I love. I like having a real connection.

You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

Just the fact that you need me to prove I love you is probably a clue it isn’t working