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Quotes About Communication

You were mad at me for lying to you. Don't lie to us now.
~ Holly Black
Call tried to call
~ Holly Black
I think of all the good things that come from someone knowing you well enough to understand your hopes and fears.
~ Holly Black
He was nice in the carriage. I didn't know he knew how to be nice.' That makes me laugh. At the door to my chambers, she puts her hand on my arm. 'He was trying to impress you, you know. Talking to me.' I frown. 'I think he just wanted to hear about weird candy.' She shakes her head. 'He wants you to like him. But just because he wants you to doesn't mean you should.
~ Holly Black
Dime otra vez lo que dijiste en la fiesta- dice. -¿Qué?- Apenas puedo pensar. -Que me odias, -dice con voz ronca- dime que me odias.
~ Holly Black
Oh for goodness sake. Why do boys always have to talk about their feelings all the time? It's so gross. - Tamara
~ Holly Black
long moment. Ben raised his eyebrows.
~ Holly Black
Good." said Hazel. "Boy son the Internet lie." "All boys lie," Ben said. "And all girls lie, too. I lie. You lie. Don't pretend you don't.
~ Holly Black
I tried to kill you,' she reminds me. 'You've described pretty much every important relationship in my life,' I return.
~ Holly Black
I do not need a tongue for her to read the rage in my eyes.
~ Holly Black
I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That's how I know who to trust.
~ Holly Black
I have no idea what to say to him. "The Latin Club is totally evil," I blurt. "The Latin Club?" I can understand why he's confused.
~ Holly Black
I know you're angry with me...' I begin. 'Am I?' he asks, looking up at me as though there is a bitter taste in his mouth. 'Maybe I'm glad that you gave me an opportunity to be my worst self.
~ Holly Black
Stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth.
~ Holly Black
Don't lecture me," Vivi returns.
~ Holly Black
When it was his turn to talk, he told stories. He told me ones I knew, old stories, and he told me old-sounding ones I had never heard.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes it's easier to be mad at the people close to us
~ Holly Black
Cardan looks at me as though he's never seen me before. He looks at me as though no one has ever spoken to him like this, maybe no one has.
~ Holly Black
You've delivered your message. I have no big of doggerel to send back- my own fault for having a seneschal who cannot double as my Court Poet- but I will be sure to crumple up some paper and drop it into the water when I do.
~ Holly Black
Exactly,' Cardan says, reaching out a finger to trace the shape of my ear. The curve, I realise. I shudder, eyes closing against the hot spike of shame. He keeps talking, but he seems to realise what he's been doing and snatches his hand away. Now we're both ashamed.
~ Holly Black
Father,' I say. 'I used to think I wanted you to call me that,' he says. 'But it turns out that when you do, good things seldom come after.
~ Holly Black
Once you're wed, if you want to take other lovers, she better be with you when you do it and she better be into it. If it's not fun for everyone, it's not happening.
~ Holly Black
His smile said that she'd given the wrong answer.
~ Holly Black
She's good at picking out clothes to send a certain message- even if the message of her drawings appears to be "stay away from me or I will chop off your head"...
~ Holly Black