"I talk in circles to keep people at a distance."

"If I told you what I really think and feel, you'd think I was a bitch."

"What if you're deathly ill or slightly deathly ill?"

Thursday

"Are you going to believe what people say about you, or keep hanging on to the heinous, incompetent person you think you are?"

"I don't listen to your words; I listen to your tones."

"We're practically family here."

"What's the point?You have no point!"

"Just have fun with it."

"I just need to play my game."

"What are we going to  do with you?"

"Take some more antibiotics or something."

"What is truth anyway, [your name here]?"

"This is a tricky question; if you don't have an answer, just say you don't know."

"And how is [your name here] today?"

"And what do you do, [your name here]?"

"I'm only joking."

"Don't mention it."

"Everything already has been said."

"It's my experience that you don't want to talk to me."

"Nothing happened, [your name here]."

"Dammit, [your name here], you just don't think."

Subordinate clauses or they will subordinate you.

Uncircle the Wagons.

"What do you want me to say?"

"You taking some good pictures?"

"Everybody lies all the time."

"Do you know what I mean or don'tcha?"

"Tell me something I don't know."