“I thought… that we could at least talk about books.”

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

“Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.”

“But you cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall. I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about.”

“Mine," he said.

Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine."

It would have been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.”

“We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.”

“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”

“I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.”

“A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.”

“I'll never forget my little city! I could talk a whole day about it! - talking about her hometown Erexim.”