Asking questions Quote by Kristine Cuevas

“I do not want to talk about it.”

— Don DeLillo

“He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Come, what did I say, repeat it? he would ask. But I could never repeat anything, so ludicrous it seemed that he should talk…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Not if you don’t want to.” I knew exactly what he wanted to talk about. He wanted to go over the moment when I’d…

— André Aciman

“I could have told, just looking at him, that that was the tone he would use asking a question. A tone that took it…

— Rex Stout

“Just because he doesn't want to hear it doesn't mean you shouldn't say it.”

— Varian Johnson

“He didn't ask what she was thinking, he didn't intrude; he would wait until she wanted to tell him.”

— Kristin Cashore

“You've spent all this time afraid to talk about what was going on between you two, but if you'd ever bothered to ask him,…

— stephanie perkins

“His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn’t read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn’t intend to tell me anything…

— J.A. Rogers

“If I had to ask him to ask me, it wasn't going to work as an expression of concern. Like when you ask someone…

— Nicci French

“He wanted to talk and had nothing to say.”

— Samuel R. Delany

“He was filled with questions but figured he’d exhausted her conversation quota already. Some people, he could just tell about them. She was one…

— Heather Burch