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Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

Nicole Krauss
Long, Silence, Needs
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

There's no match for the silence of GOD.

Nicole Krauss
Silence
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.

Nicole Krauss
Taken, Silence, Poverty

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Nicole Krauss
People, Silence, Way

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

Nicole Krauss
Two, Silence, Would Be
Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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