Keeping Quiet Quotes

I don't like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet about are things you don't want to know.
- Carol Rifka Brunt

And I look at him because he needs to be looked at. He needs to be seen. I hate that he has been on his own for so long painting graffiti moons in the dark keeping quiet about who he really is.
- Cath Crowley

I hear everything he's ever painted in his voice. I hear that person on the beach, looking at the waves. I hear hearts rocked by earthquakes and disappointed seas. I make myself look at him because he needs to be looked at. He needs to be seen. I hate that he's been on his own so long, painting graffiti moons and bricked-in birds and keeping quiet about who he really is.
- Cath Crowley

This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet.
- Anna Quindlen

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.
- Arundhati Roy