If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've always been the type of person that has told friends, if they're going through a rough time, I'm always there to talk to.
I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
I want to talk to people that have been through big disappointments, big emotional crises, deep life struggles, and I will learn something from that.
I have been the person who tries to keep conversation light while talking to someone whose heart has been smashed.
I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut.
There is one way to have a short but exciting conversation with me, and that is to move too slow.
I feel I can hang out with any group of people and find common ground to talk with them.
I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.
When someone is dying, there is nothing you really can do, it's a horrible situation, and... you just have to get through it.
I am one of those people who are out of touch with their emotions. I tend to treat my emotions like unpleasant relatives - a long-distance call once or twice or year is more than enough. If I got in touch with them, they might come to stay.
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