Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.
Words have the greatest power to inflict everlasting pain. Words have the greatest power to heal the soul.
Memorizing lines isn't really hard. Only with really hard words and stuff.
In other words, I was a moderately happy penguin who was occasionally attacked by sadness.
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.
A picture can say a thousand words, but a sentence can paint a thousand pictures...
Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.
You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once compreh...
The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the brea...
It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side - just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can s...
He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close around my scars. He kissed away their ugliness. His lips parted in tingling butterfly kisses that drained the strength from my knees. I realized he wa...
Most men have boxes in their waffle that have no words. There are thoughts, but they don’t always translate into words. Not all of the wordless boxes have thoughts, however. There are actually boxes in the average man’s waffle that contain neithe...
I like to bunch words together to form new words, like "off" and "ice" to form "office." But I have no idea what an office is, because I avoid work like the plague. Is office even a real word?
His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does, as the tips of his spindly fingers touch the words his mouth forms, his words turn dark before my eyes and disintegrate like twisted people c...
Whenever someone says some- thing about us, it gets written inside us, permanently. The good words, the ugly words, it’s all right here.” I placed a palm against my chest. “Sure, you can scribble out the words or try to paint over them, but ben...
Sometimes I just wonder,like,how could anyone else possibly be this lost,too?!Sometimes the words are so beautiful and true and unsettling I just want to hug my book and make sure nobody else in the world ever reads those words,because they are mine,...
One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we discovered that in any interaction, the person with the higher status uses I-words less (yes, less) than pe...
