With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into t...
With golden giftes and many a guilefull word
With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With th...
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency t...
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
Words are loneliness.
Words are not swords.
Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.
Words are wind.
Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.
Words empower us, move us beyond our suffering and set us free. This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.
Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it wa...
Words have weight.
Words is but wind but dunts is the devil
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
Words said can never be recalled. So it is best, oftimes, not to speak too quickly. Yet words left unsaid are worse. We wear them like weights around our hearts.
Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting t...
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.
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