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"Jamie's viewpoint is expressed almost entirely in metaphor: If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle. He's using physical language, but he isn't talking about the physical details of the situation. Claire alludes to her emotion and shows it by her actions, but Jamie is thinking directly in pure emotions."
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"Confrontation affords you the opportunity to hear the other side of the story."

"Meetings! Meetings! Meetings!Do they ever achieve anything or do they just let a lot of hot air out of an already over inflated balloon?"

"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."

"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."
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"So now it's space and time," he said. "You ever watch Doctor Who on PBS?""All the time," she said dryly, "on the BBC. And don't think I wouldn't sell my soul for a TARDIS."

"If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle."

"I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough."

"Mid-afternoon, I'll go out and do the household errands, come home, do my gardening, go for an evening walk."

"The vivid memory of the woods had blossomed into a visceral longing for the Ridge, so immediate that I felt the ghost of my vanished house rise around me, a cold mountain wind thrumming past its walls, and thought that, if I reached down, I could feel Adso's soft gray fur under my fingers. I swallowed, hard."

"You have lost your mind,"Jamie said coldly, the shock receding slightly. "Or I should think you had, if ye had one to lose."

"This is why you use imagery when writing about sex, it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion."

"Knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances."

"I want to take ye to bed. In my bed. And I mean to spend the rest of the day thinking what to do wit ye once I got ye there. So wee Archie can just go and play at marbles with his bollucks, aye?"
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