Richelle Mead Quotes

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.

I think there's a great deal of information you can convey with looks or silence.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying.

Watch their hands, watch their eyes. Read eyes. No matter what a man is saying to you, it's not as important as what you can read in his eyes. The most important thing a man has to tell you is what he's not telling you; the most important thing he has to say is what he's trying not to say.

When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80% of what you understand in a conversation is read through the body, not the words.

You can convey a lot of emotion with just some eyebrows and mouth movement.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.

I love body language.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.

I was really interested in observing people. From a young age, I wouldn't listen to what an adult was saying - I was obsessed with other people's body language.

Many people with autism struggle with reading nonverbal cues and acting on them. When you lose that ability to understand and process nonverbal cues, you're at a huge disadvantage socially.

Ninety-eight per cent of all human communication is non-verbal.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.