dialogue

Now, now._ I placed a hand on his back. __ealousy colors you black, Geoff. If you wanted to be a pretty princess too, I would have bought you a crown. I__l be back soon.

A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth.

A man__ mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Jim. If you have any other outside events, don__ confess them. That__ my advice, okay?___hat am I going to do, Bob? I have no family.___ou have family,_ Bob said. __ou have a wife who hates you. Kids who are furious with you. A brother and sister who make you insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip now. That__ called family.__im fell asleep, his head leaning forward almost to his chest

Oh, once you__e been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn__ want you back._ Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. __e__y whom I mean anyone over sixty__ommit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman__ memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.

My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, __ou are a genius, my love!_ To which I replied, __y girl,_ whispering, __very doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

In the days approaching Christmas, she always reminds me of the previous year: 'Jane crocheted you an entire poncho, and all you gave her was a bone-shaped beach stone.

It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy.

Perception can be one-sided or variant: "Glass half empty or half full." There usually is more than one way of perceiving. Thoroughly check your inner dialogue.

A good part of the physical attraction [between the hero and heroine of a romance novel] comes to life during these exchanges as well, since language creates a meeting of the minds. I have long thought that these lines of dialogue carve out the lines of the central love relationship. The dialogue between the hero and heroine creates the central shape of the story. It is the verbal sculpture.

Jax, I don't know if I can do this," I murmured."Do what?" he asked.I though for a moment as he watched me in silence. "Survive you," I whispered in answer."Maybe you won't have to...

He told me and Rafe to stay put in case you came home, burn the note and get hot water and disinfectant and bandages rea

How's Alison getting on?'Conway snorted. 'Tucked up in the sick room like she's dying in some season finale. Little fadey voice on her and all. She's having a great old time.

For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

Explaining a professor's emphasis on teaching over research: "She traded clinical questions with determinable answers for perennial questions with inexhaustible answers.

I call the right axe Sorrow," she said. "You know what I call the left one?" "Happiness?" "Sorrow. I can't tell them apart.

Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead were being offered parallel but separate universes.

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.