The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.
We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.
I like the word ‘evil’. Scramble it a little and you will get ‘vile’ and ‘live’. ‘Good’, on the other hand, is just a command to ‘go do’.
One word was the method by which the state collected their information. They could reel in the informants and spread them out like tentacles, ready to sting in any direction.
Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters
Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.
But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses the same words as Pain.
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
And because, most crazy of all, all that kindness, all that magnificence, was sitting there just because of his words
The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding on to.
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary.
I find that often simple words say all that needs to be said in less time, using less energy, with all the details wanted- fully in tact. Love it.
it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.
Then Gerry heard through his helmet radio the two most dreaded words any crew never wanted to hear during a space mission; "Oh sh*t
He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...
When she finally pulled away from him—much to Aley’s stuttering forward reluctance—he wanted only to echo Aley’s words: “Oh! Do it again.
I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
