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Quotes About Communication

Olaf was smiling, bending over so he could hear what she was saying. Whatever she said, it made him laugh. I'd never seen him laugh. It was a little unnerving, like seeing your dog sit up and try to hold a conversation with you. I mean, you know the dog communicates, but it's not supposed to speak the queen's English.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, 'You are a fucking psycho bitch and I hate you.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
me. "I don't know you," Edward said. "I came in just after you left," Simon said. "Simon?" Edward made the name a question, and the big man seemed to understand what was being asked. "As in whatever the fuck Simon says, you damn well better do." How colorful, I thought, but didn't say out loud.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Boff," Agent Brent said. "I didn't know people used that word anymore." "You young whippersnappers just don't know a good piece of slang when you hear it
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The short one with the scar shifted from foot to foot. "Yeah, this is Russell," he motioned at the Indian, "and this is Newt." I almost said, "Newt," aloud, but figured we had enough problems without me being a smart-ass. And people say I don't know when to keep my mouth shut.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
What you'll enjoy from someone you're in love with just hits you as clingy from someone you think of more as a sex buddy.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Apparently the Irish Fey answered direct questions, but what you didn't ask, they didn't answer, even if logically it was connected.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
The anger washed away in the knowledge that I was a hypocrite. I don't know how much of it showed on my face, but Jean-Claude cocked his head to one side. "Thoughts are flying across your face, ma petite, but what thoughts?" I stared up at him. "I think I owe you an apology." His eyes widened. "Then this is a truly historic occasion. What are you apologizing for?" I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
This was the second time I'd asked about his wife. I seemed to be speaking English, but perhaps my questions were really Swahili and I just didn't realize it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I tried to ask him where Ronnie was, but he just smiled, shook his head, and managed to hold an empty glass up, asking if we wanted a drink. Since I didn't have a blonde to hold up to ask if he'd seen one of those, I just shook my head, and we moved far enough away from the bar so that we weren't blocking those that did want a drink. A
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
One woman cannot be committed to this many men." "Maybe, but you treat your lovers better than a lot of women treat their boyfriends." "Sorry to hear that," I said. He
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Il sesso è una delle cose più intime che si possano condividere. Se si è limitati nel proprio modo di esprimersi proprio dalla persona da cui si è amati, è un po' come morire. Uccide l'anima.»
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He'd also offered me a protein bar, which I would have turned down, but he gave me that look that people have been getting from their significant others since probably before written language.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
What do you say while someone whispers horrors in your ear, tells you their most intimate, nightmarish secrets? You sit and you listen. And you give them the only thing you can—the silence and the safety to talk and to be heard.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He'd let his anger take him to a place that his ass might have trouble getting out of, or maybe I just didn't understand the normal branch of the service whose badge I carried. She put her elbows on the arms of her chair, her hands like a double fist in front of her lips. "Second, get the fuck off my desk." Oh, I did understand the normal branch of the service. It worked just like all the others.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I feel that anything I say, or do, in this moment, will upset you." It was the most diplomatic way I'd ever been told that I was a pain in the ass. I fought the urge to scream at him.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Was that an insult?' 'If you have to ask, then indeedy-do, it was.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Stephen wasn't going to work through his issues in time to save his relationship with Vanessa
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You know, most people's pillow talk isn't about battle and killing," I said.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Get here as soon as you can, and let me know which of the guys with you pissed you off and I'll help you play with him, between killing zombies." "You sweet-talking thing, you," he said. That made me laugh. We hung up with both of us laughing. There were so many reasons that Edward and I were friends.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Sento che, qualunque cosa io dicessi o facessi in questo momento, tu ne saresti turbata.» Nessuno mi aveva mai detto in modo più diplomatico che ero una rompicoglioni.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
It would have been childish to give him the finger, so I didn't do it. Zane did it for me. Jason blew them a kiss. We
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I've got to go." He hung up suddenly as if afraid of being caught. His mom had probably come into the room. The Zeemans had four sons and a daughter. The sons were all six feet or above. The daughter was five nine. They were all over twenty-one. And they were all scared of their mother. Not literally scared, but Charlotte Zeeman wore the pants in the family. One family dinner and I knew that. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
My lioness was crouched inside me, ready to spring, but would that hurt me more than him? "It means I can feed on things besides sex, and I'm trying very hard not to feed on you." "I know you are trying not to have sex with me." Great. It was like he'd edited what I'd said and heard only the sex part. I should have known he would.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton