"Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me."
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"Are all caps really necessary? No need to shout at me. My hearing is perfect when the words arrive in my mind through my eyes."
"We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
"A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping."
"He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."
"Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes."
"It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'""That's great,"Lana said."Invincible. I can't be vinced.""That's not even a word,"Lana said."Go ahead: try to vince me,"Sanjit said."
"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."
"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
"Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon."
"Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way."
"I think I’m mouth blind and that’s why all food tastes bland. The only things that have any flavor are the words I love you."
"My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of parole."
"Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more."
"Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human."
"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."
"All the ideas in the universe can be described by words. Therefore, if you simply take all the words and rearrange them randomly enough times, you’re bound to hit upon at least a few great ideas eventually. Sausage donkey swallows flying guillotine, my love assembly line."
"The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools."
"In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action."
"Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine."