Able Quote by Cornelia Funke

“It was hard to listen to her all the time without getting to say anything back”

— Stephen Chbosky

“She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she…

— Freya North

You usually don't care what other people are saying until they start whispering.

— Anonymous

“She was scornful. “He talks to you personally?” “He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don’t bother to listen.”

— Francine Rivers

“Some people are not really good listeners. They are merely good at keeping quiet for a long time, while someone is talking to them.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“She had become really quite expert, she thought, at listening as though she didn't listen, at sitting in other people's lives just for a…

— Katherine Mansfield

“She wants to know why she can’t hear you,” Rue explains. “I told her your voice has been lost, so she’s keeping your hand…

— Josin L. McQuein

“She had to be made to understand that she can’t go mouthing off about people and not expect consequences from it.”

— Chrissy Moon

“she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.”

— William Peter Blatty

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne)

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Most humans, they seem to prattle on about this and that, not even really seeming to care about what they are saying so long…

— Shanon Mayer

“The first time I heard her, I never wanted to listen to anyone else.”

— Michelle Hodkin