Quotes About Communication

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

Grandpa Teddy often said, "In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment, and only he could bring them into harmony.

Truths we don't want to hear always make the teller ugly to us.

Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart.

Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless.

Asshole." "Your mother never taught you words like that." "You don't know my mother," she said thickly.

Because when you're doing it, then it's just something you do. But if you talk about it, then it's something you are

I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for—more than I could learn from books alone.

Perhaps everything else that mattered in a relationship grew from trust—from a tranquil faith in the courage, integrity, and kindness of the other person.

Now, Gunner takes her call, as though they had spoken only yesterday

In the company of other people, Amy had little tolerance for quiet. Enduring mutual silences, she sometimes felt as though the other person might ask a terrible question, the answer to which, if she spoke it, would shatter her as surely as a hard-thrown stone will destroy a pane of glass.

telepathy," had been part of that fund of knowledge called "instinct.

which was named after the Roman god Mercury.

He checks his iPhone and discovers one text message. As always, it is from Ace of Diamonds

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication

he expressed his love more often with pats on the head and affectionate smiles than with kisses and extravagant proclamations of devotion.

The directness of his stare suggests her every word matters to him, and she feels that she has his sincere sympathy rather than unwanted pity.

because the truth of the sender's motives

But no lie, regardless of how well intended, could deceive in telepathic communication, because the truth of the sender's motives was inextricably bound up in the emotions that were transmitted with the words.

Astragalomancy was a method of divining the future or learning hidden knowledge by rolling dice. A ceromancer dropped melted wax into cold water and interpreted the figures thus produced. Halomancy required the reading of the shapes made by casting a handful of salt on a flat surface. A necromancer sought answers by communicating with the dead.

smartphone with functions specific to this mission, and a radio-wave jammer.

Kipp yearned to say so much to her while time remained. Although his intelligence had somehow been enhanced to a human level, he lacked the vocal