In the past tense, meanwhile, the dying woman silently tells her story.
There's a quote from Tessa right near the end of the book where she silently tells her father: 'Dad..
"I took a deep breath, and I silently told myself, 'Congratulations.' Because, as a Buddhist, that's what we say when we encounter an obstacle".
She silently told herself, as she later recalled, that if the bear did not feel challenged, he would "leave me alone".
The moment where he silently told her I love you ("Birdy …" "I know") took us back to a tender past we've barely witnessed.
The war hangs over this group of carefree miseries, silently telling them that their experimentation and even their attempts to conquer nature are fatuous.
And that seems to be how most New Yorkers reacted to the holiday, doing whatever they had planned and silently telling the terrorists to take a hike.
One day in the mid-1980s, he said, he asked Bill Webb, the longtime Mets TV director, if he could capture a shot of a shortstop, with his glove up to his face, silently telling the second baseman who would cover second on a ground ball hit to the pitcher.
He writes in his new book that he finds it gratifying "to participate, in however modest a degree, in the art world -- conscientiously squinting at each work, scribbling my notes, attempting afterwards to phrase the story that any exhibition, especially a retrospective, silently tells".
Nick asks his father why the woman's husband killed himself, and silently tells himself that he will never die.
