Quotes About Communication

I have a cockatoo," Willow was saying to Cricket. "Her name is Talkatoo and she's the smartest bird in the world SUNDEW STOP LAUGHING AT ME." She shoved Sundew's shoulder affectionately. "I was only a little older than

You also should avoid talking to your targets, in case you find out that they're beautiful, sarcastic, and fascinating. For instance.

and I never got to tell Sunny I love her.

He winked, and Clay managed to look embarrassed, alarmed, and confused all at the same time.

Jambu shrugged apologetically. "I'm not sure what you're talking about," he said. Starflight had to sit down and fold his wings over his head for a minute. Glory

Want me to drop a mango on her?" Sundew offered. "You have a MANGO?" Swordtail asked indignantly. "No, you acorn. It's a metaphorical mango." "I don't see how metaphorical mangoes are going to do us any good," Swordtail muttered.

I can hear others, but no one else can hear me. Makes for a lot of very boring, one-sided conversations. She

SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWK!

I do not APPRECIATE your skeptical tone,

Bring me back a banaaaaaaana!" Mindreader called after him as Mightyclaws darted away.

Is she safe to be around?" Winter asked harshly. "What do you think?" He tilted his head at Moon. "I AM," Peril said. She thought MUSHROOMS AND MONGOOSES at the NightWing as loud as she could, and Moon started giggling.

Shut UP, Queen Ruby; go AWAY, Queen Glory; deal with your OWN STUPID DRAGONS, Queen Thorn!)

What?" he roared.

She thought about that for a moment. He liked the way she stopped and thought carefully about the things he said. Most dragons already had their ideas settled in their heads; if they paused to think before responding, it was only about how to explain to you that you were wrong. But Cricket seemed to take in information and questions and hold them up against the things she thought she knew, to see if there was anything new she missed.

Coconut," he whispered. "Um. Would you please go hit my grandfather?

Snowfall?" Lynx said after a moment. "Are you — did I break you?" She reached out and tapped lightly on Snowfall's forehead.

Tsunami whirled to glare at Starflight, her gills pulsing. "Say that to my face." "I am saying it to your face," he said. "Or was I saying it to your rear end? It's easy to get the two confused." He ducked behind Clay before Tsunami could even bare her teeth at him. "Hey, stop. Quit snarling at each other like mini Kestrels,

You sound like Starflight," Clay said. "Will there be a test at the end of this lecture?" "He wouldn't talk to me, by the way," she said. "Not even when I asked

Well, thank you," she said. "Although I'm going to vote against calling it 'magical death spit,' please.

sisters, meanwhile, taught him that you should really not tell your sisters who you have a crush on, unless you want the entire palace to know about it.

That's a lot of thoughts," he said. "Weren't you paralyzingly shy at one point? What happened to that unobtrusive, quiet dragon?" "It turns out it's actually much easier to talk to you when I can't hear what you're thinking," Moon admitted,

I don't know your name." "Kindle," she said.

In a moment she'd be gone, and then he could run to Foeslayer, warn her, and send her flying back to her room as fast as possible.

I like your weird little laugh wrinkles." "I like your weird little way you mispronounce words." "I BEG your pardon. YOU'RE the one who says things all squonkily.