“In there?'She nodded.'You want us to go into the tortoise?'Another nod.'It's alive.'Another nod.”

“I nod so much there's a nodding festival going on.”

“The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don’t. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don’t want to talk.”

“Phury nodded. "And if she lives with us, we get to keep the cat.”

“He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I'd understood that he'd understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod - with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.”

“So I just waltz up to your witch-god and ask to go home,' Jorden said with little regard as to whether the statement was offensive or not. The kaedith nodded again. 'That's about the size of it,' she said, and lit up another cigar.”