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.
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.
Constantly talking isn’t necessarily communicating.
Sometimes exactly what I want to hear isn’t exactly what I want to hear.
See, we talkin’ numbers now. And numbers always gotta be in conversation with each other. You understand? You gotta negotiate.
You see rats with wings, but I see the Internet. No IP addresses. No digital footprint. Can’t track it, can’t hack it, can’t trace it.[to The Adjudicator]
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]
Open communication was never our family’s forte.
