Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

Librarians are always smart, a little nuts, and know how to party.

. . . but I always say, one's company, two's a crowd, and three's a party.

Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

Sometimes to be silent is to lie.

You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's a party here. You act to the servants, you act to father, you act to me. To me you act the part of the fond, indulgent, celebrated mother. You don't exist, you're only the innumerable parts you've played. I've often wondered if there was ever a you or if you were never anything more than a vehicle for all these other people that you've pretended to be. When I've seen you go into an empty room I've sometimes wanted to open the door suddenly, but I've been afraid to in case I found nobody there.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet'. Visions of Johanna

In every good marriage, it helps sometimes to be a little deaf.

But imagine there’s this thing that always sits there in the room with you. And everyone knows it’s there and no one will ever say a single goddamn word about it until it becomes like an extra person living in your house that you have to make room for. And if you bring it up, they pretend they don’t know what you’re talking about.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

"Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say
"Look!" and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads."