A Silence Shared Quotes

“What, then, was the idea (as James called it) at the heart of the book? Maybe the one hinted at in the epigraph: "The only true silence is a silence shared." Solitary silence is mute because it is, in fact, solitude, and soliloquy can become a confession, but not a novel. "Share" implies the other, which can be, as is the case here, a community.”
― Lalla Romano, A Silence Shared