She started to speak, but then stopped. Anything she could think of to say seemed a mistake. In fact, speech in general seemed a mistake. It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work. from Back When We Were Grownups.

Anne Tyler
About This Quote

The choice to speak in a situation is not always based on what you want to say. It is also based on what you think the other person will say. Most of the time, when we talk, we do not think of what we want to say. We only think of what we think the other person will say. If this is true, then why did she feel so uncomfortable once she could not find anything she wanted to say?

Source: Back When We Were Grownups

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