“There is real comfort in being quiet.”
Justina Chen (1968) American writer
Source: North of Beautiful
“Otherwise it was quiet—that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.”
— N. K. Jemisin, book The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 20 “Life” (oil study) (p. 364)
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