Leandra Stockinger

“I gave up something I wanted for something I need. And I need you, Angel.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”
― Marianne Moore

“Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.”
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care