“ Cordelia loved his explanations. She loved knowing words that belonged to things she'd never seen, even to things you couldn't see at all. She remembered those words carefully. "Magic," George had sai… Leonie Swann
“ As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of "niggardly," who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the word has a… John Derbyshire
“ Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger. Isaac Marion
“ He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are coming out into the light and yet he is still alive. At once he storms the doorway… David Grossman
“ Such a voice this man has. The way he sounds isn't a sound at all. It's a river into which words are thrown. Laura Bynum
“ People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other("Poem") Raymond Radiguet
“ As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words. Maya Banks
“ More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, the likes of which she had never had nor would again. The thoughts and ideas he had birthed in her,… David Grossman
“ The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive, but a ritual, an essential ordering of the world into tall, thin jar… Catherynne M. Valente
“ We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We ha… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let you… Jasinda Wilder
“ People can go on telling themselves things like “Think before you speak!” or “You don’t believe that yourself” or “Forget it!” But they can also say, “Oh, what lovely flowers!” or “Are you a phone fre… Thomas Brussig
“ My cheeks are red hot,my lip still trembles,because I sent my heartto speak; every word of itdelusional and awkward,an exuberance, an abrupt sound.That's how I spoke, oh, it stillshows on my hot cheek… Robert Walser
“ I wish I could read what she's written there. Instead, I pretend the letters are stars. The words, constellations. Isaac Marion
