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"You don't have to say anything if you don't want to."Anna lies down, her head pillowed against my shoulder. Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas-a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak."
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"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."

"When you talk, use words that inspire you and others."

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

"Wouldn't it be wonderful to be a natural communicator and know exactly what, when, why, and how to speak so that your message is conveyed and received as you intend?"

"Active listening is key to all healthy and effective communication, however, it doesn't necessarily come easily."

"A very unwise man once said, "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." A very annoyed woman once said, "He who does not want to communicate will never enjoy their silence for very long."

"The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them - on twitter."

"The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about."

"Choose your audience wisely, for its not your performance that varies but their response is what matters!"

"The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read."
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"When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right."

"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"

"Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect."

"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth."

"Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning."

"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."

"That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.I closed my eyes, sick of the riddles, and to my surprise all I could see were dandelions-as if they had been painted on the fields of my imagination, a hundred thousand suns. And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt."

"But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?"
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