Quiet Men Quotes

“You might see that I am a writer for a reason. In speech and from my mouth we taste the words unseasoned. It's teasing the truth which to my mind reeks of treason.”
― Criss Jami

“Would either Mary or Judie pick up on the quality she'd loved in Barry, too--in any man who possessed it: the steady eyes, the follw-up questions, the interest in seeing her eat? She couldn't quite explain it, except to tell her girlfriends that 'the quiet ones drive me mad.”
― Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

“The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?”
― larry watson, Let Him Go