Marina and the Diamonds Quotes

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Silence is a universal language. It's like music or painting.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

I know the feeling of being with a person with whom I have nothing in common, and yet there they are, and there we are, together, sharing pieces of our lives.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

The silent thing onstage allows for a kind of intimacy that no conversation can have. If I just shut up, we're forced to look at each other and really confront that moment.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

Silence is also conversation.

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

Some guys find eating face-to-face weirdly intense. But sitting on the same side of the table allows both intermittent physical contact and eye contact.

Now, I realise that love is peace. Love is when you are with somebody, and it's okay, and you don't have to talk. Their presence is important.

It's relaxing to be around somebody that you don't have to try so hard around.

I think chemistry is just about two people being comfortable with one another.

your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it.

Somehow the silence seemed to connect us in a way like words never could. - Julianna Baker

If you can sit in silence with a person for half an hour and yet be entirely comfortable, you and that person can be friends. If you cannot, friends you'll never be and you need not waste time in trying.

We didn't talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough

The silence wasn't like the ones I'd known lately, though: it wasn't empty as much as chosen. There's a entirely different feel to quiet when you're with some-one else, and at any moment it could be broken. Like the difference between a pause and an ending.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.