#conversation

I miss talking to you.' 'I can't imagine why. We haven't talked about anything particularly interesting in years.' 'I thought it was interesting. Perhaps I like talking about boring things with you. ↗

— Eloisa James

#imagination

Humans are probably the only creatures who know that they will die. They know for certain and yet they keep going. A resilient spirit and a need to survive does not make for cowardice. Salma to Merrick in Simple Conversation ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#philosophy-of-life #simple-conversation #inspirational

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#behavior #change #conversation #day #fear

The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#dinner #food #politics #food

They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#conversation #hope #movies #pop-culture #tv-shows

We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#conversation #hope #love #patience #understanding

I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#arrested #bobby #broke #chief #conversation

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#either #hat #i #i can #off

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#eating #ever #flagging #introduce #support