Quotes of: Words Keyword

The coverlet warmed her legs. The firelight wobbled over the pages. Maelyn sank into the world the words wrapped around her, hushing everything that hurt, and seeping tranquility right down to her toes. She was home.

Maelyn

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

My Name is Mina

... I since cricket match do long to talk with one of my arms around you, then place both arms round you and share with you, the above now seems sweeter to me than words can say.

Maurice

A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse, "And morning came and Jesus was standing on the shore.

And Morning Came: Scriptures of the Resurrection

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

The Message Remix

You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s fate.

Masque of Shadow

Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context.

Midnight Tides

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

They'd told him he had talent. That word was heroin to the young. Talent

Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread

[M]y favorite teacher was explaining that you don't say . These are pleonasms: the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. There are times in life that are very .

Margherita Dolce Vita

In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

If you desire the magical powers that led the 808 Tanuki, which are trapped in the old cave of Kumayama, say the words, .

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, Vol. 05

He said 'sorry,' They all fucking say sorry...Sorry is a word, it fixes nothing; it just makes the perpetrator feel a little less like the arsehole he is.

Never Ever After: Angel

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.

In the Night Garden

Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ and author of the Four Spiritual Laws chose three words for his tombstone: "slave for Jesus".

Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus

Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

The Nonesuch

We have to believe that the desires we have in our hearts will be fulfilled if we continue to trust and believe in him and His Word.

Not Tonight : My Worth Is Far Above Rubies

I want you to fuck me, Chris,’ I said, lustfully whispering the words into his ear as he planted kisses on my neck. His lips were wild and yearning, eagerly devouring me.

Naked and Sexual

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

The New York Trilogy

The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.

Nymphomation