"All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under."

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People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacle—the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and thoughts dropped in to obscure its clear stream. And when people stare too close to silence they sometimes face their own reflections, their magnified shadows in the depths, and that frightens them. I know; I know.

— Janet Frame