Quotes About Communication

They still have plenty to say to each other, just not anything right now.

With that right person, you can have a late-night conversation at any time of the day.

i wonder what they could possible have to say to each other. they're all so boring and they're all trying to make up for it by talking louder.

You are leaving me messages, but I haven't gotten the message yet.

I wish I could remember the moment when I was a kid, and I discovered that letters linked into words, and that the words linked to real things. What a revelation that must have been

Your Temporary Santa, He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

And I'll admit—I thought it might be best if we kept it all to the page, passed that notebook back and forth until we were ninety. But clearly that wasn't meant to be. And who am I to blow against the wind?

There is no way to describe how I feel. This is something I've never known. She has told me something I've never known.

And I look at her and she looks at me and it's like everything just opens up.

I wasn't as good at semi-normal conversation as I was at ones that were written down, or adrenalized in a surreal moment.

As soon as Neil is out of the shower, he texts Peter. You up? he asks. And the reply comes instantly: For anything.

isaac knows how stupid i find these things, and he finds them just as stupid as i do. like lol. now, if there's anything stupider than buddy lists, it's lol. if anyone ever uses lol with me, i rip my computer right out of the wall and smash it over the nearest head. i mean, it's not like anyone's laughing out loud about the things they lol. i think it should be spelled loll, like what a lobotomized person's tongue does. loll. loll. i can't think any more. loll. loll!

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside.

I stole Judy Blume's 'Forever' from my sister when I was eight,' I say. 'I figured if it was by the author of 'Superfudge', it had to be good. Well, I soon realized why she kept it under her bed. I'm not sure I understood it all, but I thought it was unfair that the boy would name his, um, organ, and the girl wouldn't name hers. So I decided to give mine a name.' Rhiannon is laughing. What was its name?' Helena. I introduced everyone to her at dinner that night. It went over really well.

They said you weren't coming back. I didn't believe them. I wanted to hear it from you.

That's what social media is: the fronts of the postcards, rarely what's written on the backs.

Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you mess up, you know. Pat: I know, but there's still drums, and a bass, and maybe even someday a tambourine.

Danny is amazed that he feels so comfortable. He is amazed that while there are some people you can see every day and not say a word to, there are other people whom you can see once a year-or once a decade, or once a life-and say anything.

I think they would like the songs better if I left out the names, or changed the pronouns.

Conversation is not his strong suit. In fact, I'm not sure it's a suit he owns.

After a year, Peter and Neil feel they are beyond the discovery phase. But we're sure that they will continually discover this not to be the case. There's always something new to learn about the person you love.

The had compatible silences.

They'd been friends for a little while but they'd never talked about how they felt.

El silencio equivale a la muerte", solíamos decir. Y por debajo de eso estaría la suposición –el miedo– de que la muerte equivalía al silencio.