“From my silence, only my voice is missing.”

“Where are you this moment?
only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
a heartbeat from me.”

“Missing like water in the desert, as a source of heat, you miss: my only perception of love.”

“Please love by giving and by taking. Give and be given. If you are only giving and not taking, you’ll know. You’ll know from that small and true voice inside you that we females are so often socialized to silence. Don’t silence that voice. Dare to take.”

“If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.”

“I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.”

“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”

“I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all; to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them.”

“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner… if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”