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Quotes About Communication

Mark has everything to do with this! If you hadn't gone downside after him, you would never have been killed. And you wouldn't have been left with some damned cryonic short circuit in your head. You may think he's the greatest invention since the Necklin drive, but I loathe the fat little creep!" "Well, I like the fat little creep! Somebody has to. I swear, you are frigging jealous. Don't be such a damned cast-iron bitch!" They
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles. I have to talk to you." "Just a minute." The minute became two or three or four, as he leaned against the doorframe and scuffed his boot on the patterned carpet. He knocked again. "C'mon, Simon, let me in." "Don't be so impatient, Miles," his aunt's voice admonished him firmly. "It's a bit rude." He
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
This is not a date, you idiot," Tej snapped at him. To her annoyance, his smile inexplicably broadened.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles paused at the door. "Ah—about Tav Calhoun—" "Yes?" "You know that janitor's closet on the second level?" "Vaguely." She looked at him in unease. "Please be sure somebody checks it tomorrow morning. But don't go up there before then." "I wouldn't dream of it," she assured him faintly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Then he had accused her of sleeping with her women friends. That had broken something in her at last, some will to desire his good opinion. How could you argue sense into someone who believed something not because it was true, but because he was an idiot?
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Galeni made her smile, but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles. You had to have a keen sense of humor to do sex and stay sane.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
I'm sorry, Lady Vorkosigan. We'll simply have to begin at the beginning. Please bear with me. Do I understand correctly you've had some sort of female trouble?" No, most of my troubles have been with males. Cordelia bit her tongue.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Across the distance between them, Bree's gaze met Mikkel's, and she did not blink.
~ Lois Walfrid Johnson
time. I think I know how the mother of a teenage daughter must feel. Like an indispensable annoyance.
~ Lolly Winston
However, all that doesn't necessarily mean they are using that knowledge to do anything other than bore their friends to death.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
Your language, dear, Victoria reproved gently. A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego. Keiley paused. With a two-by-four? she asked. Victoria's lips pursed a smile tugged at her lips. Only as a last resort, she murmured humorously. And never in public.
~ Lora Leigh
Getting a woman's body and getting her heart are two different things. And gaining her trust is another problem entirely.
~ Lora Leigh
He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.
~ Lora Leigh
Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked. His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it. should I? Maybe not...
~ Lora Leigh
You amaze me, he said then, reaching out to lay the toy on her pillow. That wasn't where he had gotten it from. You bring a toy to do a man's job, knowing the man is more than willing to provide the service. Where does that make sense, Chay?
~ Lora Leigh
She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.
~ Lora Leigh
Running me off, are you? What about all this 'me Breed, you mate' crap you're always spouting?
~ Lora Leigh
Some couples--most couples--waited years and years before they developed the ability to read or to feel each other so well. Then there were those very few who touched each other so deeply, so perfectly that first time that the bond was almost immediate.
~ Lora Leigh
I'd rather watch SpongeBob with with Kimmy than talk to you. At least that stupid yellow sponge tries to make sense.
~ Lora Leigh
God, she loved him. If she could give him his every desire then she would do it in a second, but some things she knew she couldn't do. Dawg and Natches she couldn't do. And she had no idea how to tell him.
~ Lora Leigh
Dawg's been chasing you for years, Crista. What's up?" Crista's eyes burned with anger as she slowly tucked the ordering pad into her back pocket and glared at him furiously. "I'm not a plaything for the three of you," she snarled then, surprising him and Natches. "If you cared for anything past yourselves then you damned well wouldn't expect it. You'd grow the hell up and get over it.
~ Lora Leigh
It's a boner not a monster," he growled, waving a hand to the erection her gaze continued to flicker back and forth from. "You're watching it like you expect it to bite." "It looks angry enough." A nervous little smile touched her lips before it fell and she watched him somberly. "You look angry enough." kane and sherra
~ Lora Leigh
I love Rowdy, Natches," she whispered, halting what she feared was coming. "And don't try to tell me you love me in the same way, because we both know better." His lips tightened. "We're a set. You're destroying it, Kelly.
~ Lora Leigh
The sharing isn't an every time thing, but it would sure as hell be missed if we stopped." "Has anyone ever asked you to stop, Dawg?" she asked. "Have you ever considered it?" Something dangerous flashed in his expression before it was gone just as quickly. "I'd stop if someone I loved asked it of me. If I knew the woman I loved couldn't handle it." He shrugged his broad shoulders.
~ Lora Leigh