She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.
~ Sarah Waters
I’d tell you what happened, but I can’t remember all of it. And I don't wanna put words in my dreams thoughts.
~ Crystal Woods
For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.
No comment is a comment so I never really understood.
~ Lily O'brien
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
~ Mary Norris
At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16
~ Felix Wantang
Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.
~ Megha Khare
The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.
~ Fridik Erlings
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
~ Charlotte Lamb
But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.
~ Jeff Hobbs
...Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings....
~ Lachman Gary Larkin Steve
A man's words will always express what has been treasured in his heart.
~ Luke 6:45
sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.
~ Sanober Khan
i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.
~ Margaret Cavendish
Books are readable drugs.
~ Carla H. Krueger
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
~ Miriam Elia
Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.
~ Jasper Fforde
…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.
She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
Lord Vetinari in a meeting: “what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and didn’t want him to find out.
~ Terry Pratchett
... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.
~ Marcel Proust
…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.
~ Ian Mcewan
Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like mist. Words are dangerous. Like a spell, if you name the mist, call out all of the words that describe it sharp and clear, you turn it solid, into something that no one should ever hold in their hands. Better that it stays like water, slipping between your fingers.
~ Alexia Casale
Another one of your quippy japes?
Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.
for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.
some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.
what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
~ Dean Koontz
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.
~ J.r. Tompkins
Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them
~ Federico Chini
Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.
~ Michelle Moran
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.
~ Jill Telford
The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
