Najma

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

“People speak because they are afraid of silence. They speak mechanically whether aloud or to themselves. They are intoxicated by this vocal gruel that ensnares every object and every being. They talk about rain and fine weather; they talk about money, about love, about nothing. And even when they are talking about their most exalted love, they use words uttered a hundred times, threadbare phrases.”
― Andrei Makine

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey