Quotes of: Small-talk Keyword

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

Flashcards of My Life

There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Well, she was talking to me. That's enough to make anyone lose their temper. And I accused her of sleeping with my dad because he was the soundest evolutionary choice.

Frostbite

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

The Fault in Our Stars

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

Franny and Zooey

Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.

Gone, Gone, Gone

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield

Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

Great House

The world is falling down around our ears, and all these people care for is talking about fucking to women in short skirts and men with their shirts hanging open

The Green Mile

I think about how maybe it's not things that change but people that change, and maybe that's the change everyone is really talking about.

Gold in the Days of Summer: A Novella

all night he talks and holds me, all night he loves me slow and careful.

The Golden Bird: New and selected poems

...so when you didn't mention marriage again I assumed that you had been talking idly, the way men do when they're feeling romantic.

The Gargoyle

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

You're much shorter than my mom." "Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle. "That's no way to talk to a vampire." "Bloodsucking brat." "Better" he said.

Ghost Town

Sounds like you kids have some talking to do. I'll be eavesdropping from the kitchen.

Heating Up The Holidays (Harlequin Blaze, #435)

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it.

Human Detritus

Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

And now his cock wanted back in the game. Jesus, when your brain started talking to your cock, you were on some fucking really thin ice.

Hard as It Gets

Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.

Awaken

The Bible talks about building houses on sand and rock, but says nothing about a brick house built on a blanket.

A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket

Sneezeweed, Drew?" He grinned. "Jealous?" "Surprised." "Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips." "Promise?" "Absolutely.

A Bride Most Begrudging