#conversation

Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me. “Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#conversation #ego #westford #conversation

Just so you know, I’m goin’ to enlist.” “I’m proud of you. But why?” I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. “I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#conversation #dick-westford #conversation

I've given guys blow jobs just because I've run out of things to talk about.' Oh, Rae. Who hasn't ↗

— Anne Lamott

#oral-sex #sex #conversation

How many other people?" Alec asked. "Roughly." Magnus shook his head. "I can't count, and it doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is how I feel about you." "More than a hundred?" Alec asked. Magnus looked blank. "Two hundred?" "I can't believe we're having this conversation now," Magnus said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#conversation

I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#because #conversation #directly #get #i

Sometimes interviews are fun and good conversations, but stuff like photo shoots and appearances at places where you have to meet a lot of people - I was never really made for this kind of stuff. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#conversations #fun #good #i #interviews

But my Arabic is pretty good. It's good enough to have conversations with people, to understand what they say, to understand what they're feeling. ↗

— John Abizaid

#conversations #enough #feeling #good #people

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#better #change #changes #conversation #forgotten

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#asylum #conversation #cut #each #every

It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#advance #alcohol #conversations #critical #decision