The best listeners listen between the lines.

Look, Candida, I don't want to pee on your picnic...

This is an old house. Among the oldest in the area, a white clapboard former farmhouse built in 1748. Fart on the porch and it rattles a floor board in the attic. -Dice (Swoon)

Not without an army of ninjas behind me am I letting you into my house.

You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.

I took Sin on faith, but if faith were money, fools would be billionaires.