“ The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and m… Immaculee Ilibagiza
“ He had walked on the beach and wished for icy winds to sweep away everything that sounded like mere linguistic habit, a malicious kind of habit that prevented thinking by producing the illusion that i… Pascal Mercier
“ Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us. Charlotte Featherstone
“ You flourish one hushed breath at a time. Imagine all you can build word by single word. Laurie Seidler
“ Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is given, because how can you explain the world to a child?So she ha… Peter Høeg
“ Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense. Siri Hustvedt
“ So many thoughts ran through my head. Most of them contained the same, simply three words so often strung together that it was too much a classic cheese or cliche to say it, but they still had meaning… Alysha Speer
“ She goes on to explain about how need to not only listen to what the other person is saying but try to hear the meaning behind their words. But my thing is that if you want someone to understand what… Susane Colasanti
“ I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed. Silas House
“ Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we d… Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“ I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the… Teresa Jordan
“ My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail. Chimnese Davids
“ Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse o… Israelmore Ayivor
“ He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ... Carlos Ruiz Zafon
