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An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn__ how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she__ heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer.
Marie Rutkoski The Winner's Crime
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An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn__ how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she__ heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer.

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