Quotes About Communication

Every time I ask her to explain her job, I forget to listen.

You want me to do the gutters?' Logan had said. Climate change. His mother threw certain phrases around at random to make sure they knew she was up to date with current affairs and listened to podcasts.

Jab, jab, truce! This, it seems, is marriage–

They never said sorry. They just threw down their still-loaded weapons, ready for next time.

It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

Her mother specialized in the tiny razor-sharp dig wrapped in a soft compliment, so you didn't notice the blood until afterward.

student Rani. "Passive listening is the way he listens to me.

Why did people feel the need to comment on the rain, when they had absolutely nothing of value to add to the conversation?

Veronika had accused her father of being a misogynist and Thomas had told Veronika to stop acting like a pseudo lesbian intellectual.

You're different from other agency people," one client told her at the end of their first meeting, as he shook her hand to seal the deal. "You actually listen more than you talk.

when I tried to explain my job. I'm sure it has never

How do you make a man do something without nagging?" "That," said Madeline, "is the billion-dollar question.

He'd forgotten how you had to up your volume when all the Delaneys were together.

On my way. Nearly there! These were their last foolish (and often misspelled) words. Madeline

What sort of daughter refuses to go to her mother's house? What sort of daughter speaks with such violence to her mother about buying a new recipe book? She

He liked his friends, but he had no interest in hearing their personal problems and he therefore couldn't share his own. He

because she might have already kissed him before. No. He pressed his thumb in between her eyebrows. What was he doing? Was it some sort of weird middle-aged-people ritual? Was she meant to do it back to him?

It was interesting how you could say things when you were walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.

Then how is it that not a single one of you can maintain a long-term relationship? Did your father and I not set a good example to you? Of a good marriage?' Her children all dropped their heads as if she'd called for volunteers for an unpleasant task. 'So your dad and I weren't

I must eat," said Amy. "Brooke, go tell Mum we have to eat something now because you're getting a migraine." "You tell her you have to eat because you're having a panic attack," retorted Brooke. "Tell her Logan is hungry," said Troy. "She won't want Logan to be hungry." "I told her I was hungry an hour ago," said Logan.

Now we're not talking. I haven't seen him since. But I know when he comes back, we won't talk. Or if we do, we'll talk very, very politely and coldly--which is the same as not talking.

the way he could walk straight into a party full of people they didn't know and stick his hand out to a stranger and say, "I'm Nick. This is my wife, Alice." It was as though he had an amazing skill, like playing a complicated musical instrument, that Alice could never hope to master.

I can't be in the same room as you right now." She hopped out of bed, taking the iPad with her. "Be ridiculous, then," said Ed.

Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield.