we are destroyed or uplifted by what they hear instantly or cumulatively

Stop entertaining two faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits. Nine times out of ten if they telling you stuff about another person, they’re going to tell your business...

What is important is not what you hear said, it’s what you observe.

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted...

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely...

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

…it’s merely writing, but you have to adjust your ear – I speak quietly – I sob – I whisper…