“Silence consumed my whole life; it suppressed things I could never express. My silence was responsible for my family’s happiness. Silence was my prison.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Most people have heard the phrase, ‘Silence is golden’; many would agree with it: people with screaming children running wild around the house or working in a noisy office. For me, however, it meant something entirely different. Silence consumed my whole life; it suppressed things I could never express. My silence was responsible for my family’s happiness. Silence was my prison.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“I had always wondered if Cole would believe me if I ever did manage to tell him everything; or if Dad was right and everyone would believe him. As much as I wanted to believe Cole would choose to have faith in me, I could never risk it. In just over two years, I would be eighteen and could leave home. There was no point in ripping my family apart and hurting so many people when I would leave soon anyway.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“For me, however, it meant something entirely different. Silence consumed my whole life; it suppressed things I could never express.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“That girl was buried deep under my skin, tattooed all over my heart. I fucking loved her with everything I had.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Boredom is actually going to kill me. I”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Why were things so complicated? If I could go to sleep and wake up as someone else, anyone else, I’d do it in a heartbeat.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“The fantasy I had in my head of how things would turn out was just that; a fantasy. I’d lose everything. I knew that. He’d told me enough times. It wasn’t something I could risk. Not ever. Placing”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“I hated school with a passion.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Are you ready to leave, Oakley? Cole is waiting outside,” my mum said softly. She leant against the doorframe of my room and smiled”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“The fantasy I had in my head of how things would turn out was just that; a fantasy.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“My silence was responsible for my family’s happiness. Silence was my prison.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“How could they still find that funny? Did they ever get bored of their own stupid, pathetic jokes? I”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Hot chocolate was the drink that turned me into a human in the mornings. “Good”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“We just get on with it the best we can. We fight to be better people, more understanding, stronger. Ultimately, we’ve just got to ride it out until we’re willing to change, and we’ve got to be okay with not being perfect human beings who’re fully in control of their life…despite what their stupid heart wants.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Cole talked almost continuously on the drive, chatting away about his car and what we’d do later. Occasionally, I would nod or smile in response to something he’d said, but apart from that, I just sat and listened to him speaking. His voice was smooth and calming. Not talking to him was hard. I desperately wanted to return his quick banter with something smart of my own. But I stayed tongue-tied. As”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“I loved her so much. More than anything in the world. Enough to let her go.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Eventually, we sat under some trees, and Ben immediately started stuffing a sandwich into his mouth. The nameless girl, who looked a little like Meg from Family Guy but without the glasses, made a huge effort to talk to Cole as much as she could. I couldn’t blame her. Cole was incredible. I”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“The only thing that belonged with pizza was ketchup.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“MOST PEOPLE HAVE heard the phrase ‘Silence is golden’ and many would agree with it. People with screaming children running wild around the house or working in a noisy office. For me, however, it meant something entirely different. Silence consumed my whole life. It suppressed things I could never express. My silence was responsible for my family’s happiness. Silence was my prison. ”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“wasn’t bad. It felt so natural.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“Cole talked almost continuously on the drive, chatting away about his car and what we’d do later. Occasionally, I would nod or smile in response to something he’d said, but apart from that, I just sat and listened to him speaking. His voice was smooth and calming. Not talking to him was hard. I desperately wanted to return his quick banter with something smart of my own. But I stayed tongue-tied. As we pulled into the half-full car park, I started to feel sick. People whispered to each other whenever I was around.”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
“incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of various products, bands, and/or restaurants referenced in this work of fiction, which”
― Natasha Preston, quote from Silence
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“If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead
“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”
― Virginia Euwer Wolff, quote from Make Lemonade
“I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.”
― Henry Miller, quote from Tropic of Capricorn
“I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.”
― Zoë Heller, quote from What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
“Kāda gan tam ir nozīme, Vatson? - Holmss nopietni teica, nolikdams papīra lapu. - Kāds mērķis ir sasniegts ar šo bēdu, varmācības un šausmu apli? Tam ir jāvirzās uz kaut kādu mērķi, jo pretējā gadījumā taču pār mūsu pasauli valda nejaušība, kas ir neiedomājami. Bet uz kādu mērķi? Tas, lūk, ir pastāvīgais, mūžīgais jautājums, uz kuru cilvēka saprāts vēl joprojām nav spējis sniegt atbildi.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from His Last Bow
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