25 August: National Don't Utter a Word Day

In honour of National Don't Utter a Word Day, 10 quotes about saying nothing!

1. I have nothing to say, and I’ll only say it once. Floyd Smith
2. Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. Robert Benchley
3. We’re fascinated by the words–but where we meet is in the silence behind them. Ram Dass
4. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
5. It often shows a fine command of language to say nothing.
6. Silence: The only golden thing that women don't like.
7. Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
8. The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allen Poe
9. Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalising. William S Burroughs
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer. Attributed to the Dalai Lama

Character birthday

Touchstone, aka Suzy Stone. Orphaned at a young age she grew up in an orphanage where, along with her friends Arrow and Questor, she was abused. The three snuck out one night after curfew to perform a spell they believed would stop the abuse. While they were out, the orphanage was hit by a meteorite and they were the only survivors. They were adopted by one of the firefighters at the scene. They’d picked up a rock which had fallen to Earth and kept it; it was in fact an artefact created by the Orbs which gave them powers but also created a dependency so that none of the three could be away from the object for long. This dependency was the reason Touchstone had to drop out of medical school, despite her talent for healing. The three applied to several combat teams which all turned them down because they didn’t have a need for all three. Epsilon, however, took them all.