Sarah Rees Brennan Quotes

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The person you're playing must have feelings, but if he's not able to show them, then just the subtlest rumblings and nuances can say an incredible amount.

As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

People that don't talk are constipated. I'm sorry, but if you can't communicate, what do you have? You have nothing.

Most of us do not use speech to express thought. We use it to express feelings.

it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.

People around you are quick to read your attitude of thought toward them. Inner thoughts and feelings are communicated in ways other than by the spoken word.

Boys, welcome to the wonderful world of talking to women about their feelings. As a handy primer, here are a few things you should know: 1) Women have feelings. 2) You will spend the next seventy years or so trying to guess what they're feeling and why. 3) You will be wrong most of the time. 4) I like French Fries.

You don't need words to express feelings.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.

You're never rude,' she said, smiling, 'and I think it's good to be touchy sometimes. It means you care.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

My policy is I am always more than happy to say, "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings." What I am not willing to do is take back what I said. Unless I am wrong.

The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Once you've said it, you can't put it back. So choose your words carefully in heated moments in personal relationships. Anything you say, people have feelings. If you're thinking something, you keep thinking it and it just sort of slides out, it's gonna happen.

Sam?" Rachel asked. "Do you know you have the saddest sad face ever?

Want to improve your relationships? See love as a verb rather than as a feeling?

"Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the 'imbecilic question' scale of one to ten. "Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" "Any nausea? Headache?" "Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."