You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.
He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.
Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?