Tracy Chevalier Quotes

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

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.

When you're comfortable with someone you love, the silence is the best. And, that's how me and J. are. When we're in a room together, we don't have to say anything. It's for real.

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

They talked so, with secret hearts, without needing words, talking of other things... They could have suddenly continued their confessions aloud, without ceasing to understand each other.

It's kind of amazing how well you can get to know someone without talking.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

I found that something exists between director and actor sometimes that surpasses or transcends language.

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.

For a moment the two of them looked at each other, wordless, as if they were asleep and their dreams had converged on common ground, a place where sound was alien.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

A true test of friendship, to sit or walk with a friend for an hour in perfect silence , without wearying of one another's company.

We didn't talk much. But we didn't need to.

Friendship needs no words.

Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

She sat leaning back in her chair, looking ahead, knowing that he was as aware of her as she was of him. She found pleasure in the special self-consciousness it gave her. When she crossed her legs, when she leaned on her arm against the window sill, when she brushed her hair off her forehead - every movement of her body was underscored by a feeling the unadmitted words for which were: Is he seeing it?

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

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.

A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?

That's the beauty of love. Sometimes you don't have to say nothing.

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