Quotes About Interaction

When somebody's too smooth like he is, then somebody else is going to get the rough of it I always say.

Wenn wir schweigen, werden wir unangenehm, sagte Edgar, wenn wir reden, weden wir lächerlich. Herztier

Cuando callamos, resultamos desagradables ... cuando hablamos, quedamos en ridículo.

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

He had nothing against cops, per se—he had a cousin on the force in Philly, after all—but he never liked dealing with them directly

Richard goes with a bob of the head but without another word. It seems he interprets 'don't tell anybody' as 'don't tell anybody but Rafe', because ten minutes later Rafe comes in, and stands looking at him, with his eyebrows raised. Red-headed people can look quite strained when they are raising eyebrows that aren't really there.

The king has great power, but he has no power to know me, except through what I say and what I do.

I went back to the door of Georges's study and pushed it open. He and Camille were sitting at either side of the empty fireplace, not speaking, just staring into each other's faces. "Am I interrupting you?" "No," Camille said, "we were just staring into each other's faces. I hope you weren't discomfitted by what you heard when you were listening at the door just now?

He has noticed this: that men who have not met him dislike him, but when they have met him, only some of them do.

Very helpful, I must say. Look at them in the eye and shout, and they understand every word..." (Mr. Warbeck in Sienna, talking about local Italians.)

For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.

If we were all engaged in some conversation, she would direct most of her contributions towards me, as if I were the front wall of a squash court.

Anyway, the point is that you guys really need to get out more.

We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.

The better the book the more room for the reader.

The problem with cell phones is that you can't slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw them, and if you do, they just skitter across the floor and crack their case. It's not satisfying at all. I close my eyes and bend down to pick up the pieces.

You will need me to sweet-talk the door.

You're terrible at this whole 'tell me whatever I want to know' thing." My hand goes to the crossbow, but I don't pick it up. He sighs. "Just ask me something. Ask about my tail. Don't you want to see it?" He raises his brows.

Mirroring behavior. When a mark takes a drink from his water glass, so should you. When he smiles, so should you. Keep it subtle, rather than creepy, and it's a good technique.

Prince Balekin smiles back as though their smiles could duel without the rest of them even being involved.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

Um," he said, because his conversational skills were amazing.

Is something going on?" - Celia "No!" Aaron and Jasper said at the same time. "Sure, that's not suspicious or anything.

She waited. Sometimes silence kept people talking. Sometimes if they talked enough, they wouldn't notice when you didn't.