" Quiet? I yearned to say, "Really, Karen? You know what's worse than quiet? Fluorescent bulbs crackling twenty-four hours a day in the center. Or maybe the sound of my cutter roommate weeping as she attacked her thigh with a spork? How about disconnected laughter with no punch line?"
But then, that last one had been me. "

― Kresley Cole , Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles, #1)