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Between us silence covers the wounds with a veil of peace and a soft breeze. (p19)

— Évelyne Trouillot The Infamous Rosalie (2003)

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Literature is a key to understanding human nature, social relations, and feelings.

for Words Without Borders (2019)

I like this back and forth between the past and the present, between memory and reality.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

Two crimson nights, followed by so many days of silence. (chapter 1 p34)

Memory at Bay (2010)

Always in the backs of their minds were their memories of an oppressive past, from which they could hope to break free only with great turmoil and agitation. (chapter 3 p100 )

Memory at Bay (2010)

This is a year not just to celebrate the past; it is a year to build, to change, to question, to recover our history and demystify it.

for Bomb Magazine (2005)

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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox New Thought Pastels (1913)

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.

Benedict of Nursia

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

Federico Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003)

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