Silent Is the Heart Quotes

“You don’t ever get to leave me, Easton Bennick. I love you too much to lose you.” ”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Sometimes being broken just means you’re missing your other piece. I don’t fit anywhere better than with you, Easton. I don’t care how tattered our edges are.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“How could I end up with one man who cared about nothing but himself and another who would walk through fire for me?”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I’ve put my heart in his hands, back where it was in the first place. I want him to close his fingers around it and keep it forever.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I used to make him try to speak when what I should have done was listen. I’ve never been so grateful as witnessing how silent is the heart. It’s the loudest, most beautiful sound in the world.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Some people talk dirty in the heat of the moment. Some people say flowery things. For a man whose job it is to get people to speak, there’s probably an irony in how much I enjoy his silence when we make love. I don’t need words. It’s all there in his face, in his little grunts that almost sound like growls.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Something truly good. That defines perfectly what Easton is to me. Maybe in the grand scheme of things, we’re unconventional. I work in an office. He’s covered in tattoos. I’m eight years older and was once assigned to a professional guidance position over him. I’m afraid of everything. He’s afraid of nothing. Well, unless you count him being afraid to let me know he had a crush on me.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“He can say so much without words. Did I ever truly listen?”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“His voice cracks in a raspy wail. I kept thinking how sad it was that his voice wasn’t as perfect as it might’ve been able to be, but I was so wrong. It’s perfect, just as it is. It’s the sound of our broken pasts. It’s the sound of the man that life made him. It’s just as it ought to be.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I want to know every inch of Easton Bennick until he’s imprinted on my soul. ”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Everything about the unexpected embrace fits. I didn’t know that people could fit together like this without sex involved. It’s an oddly deeper connection than when I’ve had my dick deep inside someone. It has my entire body feeling heavy and sedated.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“The pedestal I put him on topples. All my anger, bitterness, and the fog of unrealistic expectations that clouded my judgment fizzle into oblivion. He’s just a man. Just a man trying to survive in the same shit show called life that I am. Maybe he always was. I was just too young and naïve and angry to see it. Shit.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“What’s six-foot-two, a fucking idiot, and carrying two milkshakes as he walks into a place he swore he’d never set foot in again? A jackass who apparently has a conscience after all.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I feel centered suddenly. It’s as though he cast a line, caught me, and reeled me in with one look, like he knew I was floundering. I’m no longer bobbing out of time. The music is flowing through me, through both of us like we’re one.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I’m a fucking mature adult now. There’s only one clear solution—I need to fuck him out of my system.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Fucking. Aaron Manicki. In my living room. An eight years older, eight times more handsome, Aaron Manicki.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“Jesus, he blushes. Someone is going to gobble this man up and eat his candy center. If only I could walk, and talk, and be legal, and…not in here. I’d be a defender of the candy center. I mean, someone should. He’s too… good to be gobbled by the wrong person.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart

“I’m pretty sure the amused little smile he flashes me has a bigger one behind it, but I’ll take what I can get. A smile is only one step away from a laugh, after all. And one day, I’ll hear Easton Bennick laugh.”
― Dianna Roman, Silent Is The Heart