When people talk to each other, they never say what they mean. They say something else, and you’re expected to just know what they mean.
Now, Daisy, I want us to work out a signal system of communication. When I elbow you real hard in the face, that means: shut up.
If you have something to say, right now is the perfect time to keep it to yourself.[to Peggy]
You can understand communication and still end up single.
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Sometimes exactly what I want to hear isn’t exactly what I want to hear.
You can’t learn anything when you’re talking. That’s a fact of life. As long as you’re talking, you’re not listening.[to Donnie]
Why don’t you just turn off your brain and let your heart do the talking.[to Donnie]
We didn’t talk about our bodies. So when something like this happened there was no language for it. And without language for it, there was a gaping silence. And in that gaping silence was the real horror.
Open communication was never our family’s forte.