Silence and the Strength to Face the Tragic: A Reading of Brittany S. Pierce in Glee’s Third Season (Up to 3x13)
“You have to want to listen to [silence], and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn’t always talk. Sometimes—sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.”
— Danny Saunders, The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
“That happens to me all the time. My lips move but only dust comes out.”
— Brittany S. Pierce, “I Am Unicorn” (Glee, 3x02)
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
