“It was terrible. All of the things we couldn’t share. The room was filled with conversations we weren’t having.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“Nowadays every time we see each other, after I leave you I go home with the miserable feeling that I’m slow and dense about everything. I review things I’ve said, and come up with all the bright and witty things I should have said, and I feel like kicking myself because I didn’t mention them when we…”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”— Dave Eggers, amazon.com
“I often don’t say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of bottles of rage, despair, fear, but you’d never guess from looking at me.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“What matters is precisely this; the unspoken at the edge of the spoken.”— Virginia Woolf, goodreads.com
“I’ve always known that there’s more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn’t regret that he isn’t more fully understood?”— Richard Russo, amazon.com
“There are so many things that demand to be said. Where did you go? Do you ever think about me? You’ve ruined me. Are you okay? But of course, I can’t say any of that.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“We try so hard to hide everything we’re really feeling from those who probably need to know our true feelings the most.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”— Laurie Halse Anderson, amazon.com
“I sleep. I dream. I make up things that I would never say. I say them very quietly.”— Richard Siken, amazon.com