“There was a brief silence. I think I heard snow falling.”
Source: Love Story
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Erich Segal 22
American writer 1937–2010Related quotes
“And silence matched the silence under snow.”
Poem In the theatre; Quoted in: Tony Curtis (1985) Dannie Abse, p. 32

Dubliners (1914)
Variant: His soul swooned softly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
Source: "The Dead"
Context: Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

“I have never heard a more eloquent silence.”
Variant: He says a million things without saying a word. I have never heard a more eloquent
silence.
Source: Speak

“Despite the snow, despite the falling snow.”
Page 149.
Possession (1990)

“The brief silence that follows is as tender as a
rainstorm of daisies.”
Source: La Mécanique du cœur
“The splendor of Silence,—of snow-jeweled hills and of ice.”
Orion, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).