Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
Stella GibbonsTags: endurance conversation
Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the weather? But here there was no weather. These few sad rooms were the old man's world. His horizons were all walls.
Michael BedardTags: conversation elderly awkward-silence shut-in
[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.”
“Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events.
“So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.”
“Huh?” I say.
Tags: humor communication conversation paying-attention jules delilah-mcphee
We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound.
J.D. SalingerTags: conversation
Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.
Deva FaganTags: words conversation barnaby-bagby prunella-bogthistle
[I]t is things that make us happy when conversation begins to reveal itself as a paltry substitute.
Rick MoodyTags: happiness things conversation material-goods
Can I get a lock for my tent?
Bears can't unzip tents, Lana.
Well, chainsaw psychos who wander the woods looking for young girls all alone to chop up into pieces can.
There are no chainsaw psychos! I can't believe you've never been camping. It's safe, Lana. I promise.
Easy for you to say. You'll be snuggled up safely in the arms of Beau Vincent. I'm more than positive he could take on a black bear.
Tags: conversation ash lana
طه: بالسهولة دي ..
هيلاقوا العضم ..
و هيعرفوا إنه (السرفيس) ..
الـ(DNA)...
وليد: ليه ..
(تامر حسني) ..
عضمه منقوش عليه اسمه ؟
وبعدين ده معندهوش (DNA)أصلاً.. لما بنلاقي حاجة كده بنبقى عارفين إنّها مِش جاية ..
و مالهاش ديّة ..
ده إذا حد بلّغ أصلاً.
Tags: conversation dna
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
Laurence SterneTags: writing write conversation
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
William HazlittTags: thinking thought conversation speaking
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