Crosstalk Quotes

“Then why does every sentence beginning ‘We need to talk’ end in disaster? Our whole evolutionary history has been about trying to stop information from getting communicated—camouflage, protective coloration, that ink that squids squirt, encrypted passwords, corporate secrets, lying. Especially lying. If people really wanted to communicate, they’d tell the truth, but they don’t.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” —Monty Python’s Flying Circus”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.” —ANTHONY TROLLOPE, The Bertrams But”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Their thoughts flowed together in an incoherent torrent of relief and joy and delight, colliding, crashing, looping in a cascade of longing and explanations and desire as overwhelming, as drenching as the deluge of voices had been, but wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, and she was going under, she was going to drown.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Show tunes are great. Stephen Sondheim. Rodgers and Hammerstein. Wicked. Rent. The Music Man. Almost any musical will do. Except Cats.” “Why? Doesn’t it shut out the voices?” “No, it shuts them out fine. But it’s a terrible musical.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“It cannot rain but it pours.” —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh,”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“She watched him a while longer and then shut her eyes again. And even though she knew her hand was tucked beneath her cheek and he was on the far side of the room, the instant she closed her eyes he was there beside her again, his hands crossed on his chest and her hand held tightly under them, pressed safely against his heart. Who”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“But, gentle friend, for love and courtesy, lie further off.” —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer Night’s Dream The”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Three o’clock’s when every doubt and regret and guilty thought bubbles up out of your subconscious to plague you. ‘The dark night of the soul,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald called it.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.” —DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“The voices didn’t join in this time, as she hadn’t spoken, but to her surprise, they all thought in chorus.” — LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“what the hell is ‘emotional bonding,’ anyway? It sounds like something out of Fifty Shades of Grey.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“maybe I should join It’s Only Brunch. It’s like JustDinner, but with mimosas.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Sky Masterson?” “From Guys and Dolls.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Do you want to see his picture?” She pulled out her phone and began busily swiping, and at the next stoplight, held it over for Briddey to see. “His name’s Xander.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Are you making something up in your head, miss?” —FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, A Little Princess Zener”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Do it on the radio.” —Educating Rita Saved”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“her. I never felt properly sorry for schizophrenics, she thought, unable to escape the voices in their heads and fighting for their sanity with a maelstrom of noise all around them, making it impossible to think. No”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk

“Well, at least she’s asserting herself, and you don’t have to worry about her having ‘squelched girl syndrome,’ ” she said. Mary Clare ignored that.”
― Connie Willis, Crosstalk