Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.

I want a house with a garage, so someone from the government won’t try to park a tank in my living room.

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

At this rate I never want to talk to you again. Stay mad at me, Allie. It allows us to communicate in other ways.

Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence.

Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war inside subside?

I can’t remember what I said to her, and she can’t remember what she heard. I must have said I love you.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

I promised myself that we’d have this little air-clearing chat today without my tongue ending up in your mouth.

Listen carefully how a person speaks about other people to you. This is how they will speak about you to other people.

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

If you have money but not love you will somehow manage, but if you don't have both then you are in serious trouble.