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Quotes About Communication

Think about love, or hate, or joy, or rage - whatever makes you feel something, makes your palms sweat or your toes curl. Focus on that feeling. When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Precalculus was taught in dog whistle, a pitch too high to hear.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
If everyone was really having sex, they why was it paradoxically a hush-hush-whisper thing and a scream-it-online-and -in-the-cafeteria thing? If everyone was really having sex, why weren't more girls sporting baby bumps? I know the statistics.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.   Mr.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside — walking through their days with no idea who they are.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
The seniors look my way before they leave. One girl, not the cheerleader, nods her head, and says, Way to go. I hope you're OK. With hours left in the school year, I have suddenly become popular. Thanks to the big mouths on the lacrosse team, everybody knew what happened before sundown. Mom took me to the hospital to stitch up the cut on my hand. When we got home, there was a message on the machine from Rachel. She wants me to call her.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside- walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack, or cancer, or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Mr Freeman: [...] When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside - walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It is easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
They keep asking questions like 'What is wrong with you?' and 'Do you think this is cute?' How can I answer? I don't have to. They don't want to hear anything I have to say.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
My job is to nod or shake my head, to say "I know what you mean," when I don't, and "That is so unfair," when it isn't.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break - these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
He says a million things without saying a word I have never head a more eloquent silence -Melinda
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside -- walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
David stares at Mr. Neck, looks at the flag for a minute, then picks up his books and walks out of the room. He says a million things without saying a word. I make a note to study David Petrakis. I have never heard a more eloquent silence.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Melinda, Mr. Freeman says. Snow filters into the car and melts on the dashboard. You're a good kid. I think you have a lot to say. I'd like to hear it. I close the door.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
God crackles over the intercom and tells Mr. Freeman he's late for a faculty meeting.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
face my truth This is not a resting bitch face This is a touch-me-and-die face
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
You'd be shocked at how many adults are already dead inside, walking around with no clue, waiting for a heart attack or cancer to finish the job. When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. It's the saddest thing I know.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
want to go out with me? ??? chill, im not gay ???? r u shur you're not my type G wats yr typ? people who can spell
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm one of those people who never knows what to say, so I say nothing. Then people think I am a snob. Or if I do say something, half the time I blurt out the wrong thing and embarrass myself.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
pretended they flirted back
~ Laurie Halse Anderson