#Words

"She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape."

"In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie."

"Kind words change the world."

"A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"Her words are her wings. She's flying."

"Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world."

"The true poem rests between the words."

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

"My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy."

"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded."

"Ink is drinkable and printable. The words “I love you” don’t take up much space, but they can quench your thirst forever."

"I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?"

"O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away"

"The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the place where we live—and the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves."

"Books may not change our suffering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination."

"I had a dream about you. No words were exchanged, but we spoke with our eyes. My eyes said, “I love you,” while your eyes told me, “I’m asleep.” You always were more romantic than me."