Quotes About Communication

Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully until the very minute that she'd written about it, as if each story was one she told herself and her readers, at the same time.

Harry Truman never said 'Give 'em hell.' He said, 'I just told him the truth and they thought it was hell.

If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether you're my daughter or my mother. Or whether I'm your daughter or your mother. It's all the same emotion, which is worry. Or love!

I know that people get angry and I'm generally a fan of emotions. And to be real, it makes great television. A debate where everybody is yelling at each other is totally fun to watch. Until you realize that's how we choose a president.

Mary was always surprised at how terse men could be. She needed fifteen minutes to say hello. Plus hugging time.

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

Anyway, if he can't figure it out himself, why can't he just watch you? Why can't he just do what you do? Why can't he just copy you? Or copy me? If he did for me what I do for him, we'd get along great!

a variety of languages

I can read you almost immediately, get your number right away, and push your buttons to make you do whatever I want.

Don't try and change me. Women always try to change men. It never works. I'm not trying to change you. I'm trying to work with you.

Hannah was out of earshot, then turned to Caitlin.

Words are our weapons.

her gratitude didn't show. "Well, here's what I did yesterday, from noon

There was no ball of smoking incense, no cup of magic wine, and none of the other equipment essential to talk to God.

husband? Sheesh!

there's laptops

they were the go-betweens, going back and forth to a

Mary? You in love?" She looks up at me expectantly. With her shaggy haircut, there on the floor, she reminds me of a sheepdog waiting for a Milk-Bone. "I'm in confusion.

But I understand it better than I can speak it.

Okay." "Thanks, bye." Bennie left the conference room, met

If I stopped talking after I made my point, I'd never say anything.

two broads who cursed worse than the men. "It's

gestured to an empty chair

she had trained him to think she didn't need him.