Quotes of: Words Keyword

At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other fly.

Don't Breathe a Word

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Don't Breathe a Word

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The Education of Henry Adams

[Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with the pain.

The Eagle Catcher

In other words, if everyone wants to play Hamlet all at once, they couldn't because there aren't enough skulls.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I knew the promise I was about to break.the one that started with a question. Words would be spoken. A vow would be made. A ring would be exchanged and a kiss would be placed

Everything Changes

The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside

Every Day

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

Every Day

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

Empire Falls

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

Ender's Game

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

English Music

They say that secrets live at the bottom of a wine bottle. Mama had made it there the night before, slow glass by slow glass, but she'd never spoken a word.

Enchanted

The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. You can't fuck yourself into a corner. "That's a man talking," muttered Hana.

The English Patient

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

The Evolution Of Theology: An Anthropological Study

Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.

A Farewell to Arms

The bloody times, the horror, will just be history to them, words on a page, so how will they dare to judge? Very easily, I should imagine.

The Fulfilments of Fate and Desire

When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust of the piano...

The Fourth Dimension

The clown’s eyes sidled towards her, then drew away quickly. “But they kept me away from you earlier-and, on my word, you may laugh, but I was lonely for missing friendship.

Foundation and Empire

I’m sure you can manage from here”, and without a further word, he walked out of her room, then let himself out of her flat.

Forbidden Fantasies