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Quotes About Communication

This new information world also provides a new set of tools and tactics that another generation of clercs can use to reach people who want simple language, powerful symbols, clear identities. There is no need, nowadays, to form a street movement in order to appeal to those of an authoritarian predisposition. You can construct one in an office
~ Anne Applebaum
One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly. It
~ Anne Bishop
What are you going to call them?" Meg asked. "Lunch?" Simon offered. The female pack gave him a look that made him think running away would be a good idea, if he wasn't the leader and couldn't back down.
~ Anne Bishop
He wondered if there was a way human males said they were sorry about something without saying they were sorry. Because he wasn't sorry about being angry.
~ Anne Bishop
As they walked toward the group waiting for them by the cars, Simon's hand brushed against Meg's. He hesitated for a step or two; then he took her hand, ready to release her if she growled an objection. But after a startled look, she smiled and curled her fingers around his.
~ Anne Bishop
Vlad stared at Simon. "Meg told the Elders they were..." "Bad puppies," Simon finished. "Yeah." A minute passed before Vlad said, "Why?" "They didn't say 'please' when they asked for cookies." "I don't know what to say." Simon scratched behind an ear that was now Wolf-shaped and furry. "That's okay. Meg said plenty for all of us.
~ Anne Bishop
Simon's relationship with Meg was too complex for anything as simple as sex.
~ Anne Bishop
I was thinking of something that made me unhappy." Simon stopped snarling and cocked his head, looking more baffled than angry. "Why would you do that?
~ Anne Bishop
He moved forward cautiously. He circled it, sniffed it, whapped it with a paw. Then he found the product tag and stared at it for a minute. Turning toward her, he lifted a lip in something that might have been a sneer. "I know it says it's a dog bed, but I'm sure a Wolf can use it," Meg said. Nothing but grumbly sounds from the Wolf. "Fine. If you want to lie on a cold, hard floor instead of something comfy and warm just because Wolf is spelled d-o-g, you go right ahead.
~ Anne Bishop
He hadn't observed Kowalski or Debany licking their mates' hands.
~ Anne Bishop
Nathan said nothing for a moment. Then, "There's nothing in my fur, is there?" Simon gave the other Wolf a careful look. "No boogers." "Good. I hate washing boogers out of fur." "Who doesn't? What comes out of human noses is disgusting...
~ Anne Bishop
But words can beat down a person as surely as fists
~ Anne Bishop
Anger and reason are rarely partners
~ Anne Bishop
Red flickered in his amber eyes and he snarled at her. "If you ever scare me like this again, I will eat you!" Then he pressed his forehead against her arm and whined.
~ Anne Bishop
Vlad stared at Simon. "Meg told the Elders they were . . ." "Bad puppies," Simon finished. "Yeah." A minute passed before Vlad said, "Why?" "They didn't say 'please' when they asked for cookies." "I don't know what to say." Simon scratched behind an ear that was now Wolf-shaped and furry. "That's okay. Meg said plenty for all of us.
~ Anne Bishop
Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>
~ Anne Bishop
why human males would train a female to shoot a gun and then tease her into being angry enough to shoot them.
~ Anne Bishop
The fact that it took him a decade to realize I was five foot four and plump instead of a five-foot-ten pole dancer with big tits was confusing.
~ Anne Bishop
Swearwords were one of the best things humans had invented...
~ Anne Bishop
Simon didn't want to poke his nose into a "girl thing." Potentially dangerous territory, that.
~ Anne Bishop
A dumb-ass piece of wisdom that has been proven wrong too many times to count. Words can cause as much damage as a fist. They can leave deep scars that never fully heal. And they can kill.
~ Anne Bishop
May I offer you some advice?" Saetan asked. "Not as your father or as the Steward of the court, but as a man who talked to Marian this morning." Misery filling his gold eyes, Lucivar said, "What's your advice?" Saetan smiled dryly. "Get your ass home in time for dinner.
~ Anne Bishop
Vlad said, sounding regretful. Simon replied.
~ Anne Bishop
He gently rapped her nose with his finger. "But that means you can't go telling him our secrets." Jaenelle looked at him, wide-eyed. "Do we have any?" "Not yet," he grumped, "but I'll make one up just so we do.
~ Anne Bishop