Quiet Places began as a line in a notebook — I find you in my quiet places — that sat for months before the music found it. When it did, the whole piece arrived in a single evening.
It's about recognition that doesn't announce itself. About the people who move into the rooms inside us without knocking, and the moments we only notice them once the noise outside has settled. Not in the wanting, not in the reaching — only when we've stopped.
The song closes on a line that may be the quietest thing Penelope has ever sung: the silence, for once, doesn't frighten me.