#Words

"What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote."

"She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells."

"Poetry is breathing words that give a reader pause."

"And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness."

"In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.(Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)"

"Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever."

"Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page."

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."

"The word long is short, and so is the word short, but why is the word love as long as long? Shouldn’t it be longer?"

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't."

"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."

"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

"Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more."

"Beneath my eyes opens -- a book; I see to the bottom; the heart -- I see to the depths. I know what loves are trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted; I have been torn apart."

"...if you do not even understand what words say,how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?"

"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."