142 Quotes About Conversations

He began to prefer talking on the phone to actually getting together with someone, preferred the bodilessness of it, and started to turn down social engagements. He didn't want to actually sit across from someone in a restaurant, look at their face, and eat food. He wanted to turn away, not deal with the face, have the waitress bring them two tin cans and some string so they could just converse, in a faceless dialogue.

The house, and all the objects in it, crackled with static electricity; undertows washed through it, the air was heavy with things that were known but not spoken. Like a hollow log, a drum, a church, it was amplified, so that conversations whispered in it sixty years ago can be half-heard today.

She: I am heartbroken. I don't believe in love.He: Sensitive people get heartbroken. But they should never stop believing in love. She: Are you sure?He: Just as a flower takes time to bloom, one day love will bloom and make your life fragrant again!

I hated talking, and I hated listening to everyone else stumble on their words and try to phrase things in the vaguest possible way so they wouldn’t sound dumb.

Our silences were our real conversations. Our eyes were our real language.

Sometimes, days and months of conversation cannot do what an hour of play can achieve. It might take an hour of play to know a person, real person lurking behind the mask.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

If only conversations could be more like missions. Identify the target. Get in, do the job, and get out as quickly as possible.

I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.