Quotes About Communication

She loves you. She's just forgotten how to show it.

As I speak, I'm reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come out of the mouth, meaning that words can be like bombs themselves.

To learn a different language is to learn a different way of living

I used to think mothers-in-law are difficult the world over, but on that day I came to understand that they're simply unknowable.

What husband wants a wife who thinks she's smarter than he is?

They say nothing to me in a very loud way.

I'm reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come out of the mouth, meaning that words can be like bombs themselves.

But teaching a lesson isn't a part of friendship.

With her bold act, I realized the true purpose of our secret writing. It was not to compose girlish notes to each other or even to introduce us to the women in our husbands' families. It was to give us a voice.

I would be a pillow at the small of her back, a glass of cold water on a tray, a cloth shielding her from the sun. I would be a dictionary holding all the languages known and unknown. I would save everything.

It sounded to him like the noise of too many mouths that talk and too few minds that think.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can break your heart.

She wanted to take those words back. But they were out, shattering in the air all around them, slicing them both.

when we put on clothes, we're telling ourselves something, and we're communicating that something to every person we meet.

You know," he said. He paused a minute, as though picking his words carefully. "It's okay to disappoint people sometimes. It's okay for us to say no simply because we don't want to do something." Intellectually

Give up, she wanted to tell them. You lost. The world is crap, and no amount of communicating is going to change it.

He didn't respect or even understand that other people had boundaries and only bullies pushed through them.

The whole catalogue of humanity was online, feeling entitled to their opinions and to their right to share. It could be brutal.

The more you must assert your own reality to people, the crazier you seem.

But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel

Mako, and even Hannah on a bad night, might engage with Sophia, leading to an all-out battle. Which was exactly what Mom wanted; it was sadly the only way she knew how to be intimate. It had taken a couple of years of therapy for Hannah to come to that particular realization.

They just want to be heard. They just want us to listen to their stories. Are

But that was the world now, everyone in their little silo, broadcasting versions of their lives from a screen, onto the screens of others.

While Birdie was a guest in their home, the Crosses would find her irresistibly charming, impeccably well mannered, and delightfully funny. But when they were out of earshot once again, Birdie would tell Kate in unsparing detail what she really thought. Birdie Burke took merciless measure.