#Words

"Coin a new word and hear it jingle in your pocket with all your other change. My love for you is sofacouchsitsitting, so you’d better buckle up."

"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."

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

"I hope that I will be the last victim in China's long record of treating words as crimes."

"Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you."

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

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

"Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects."

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

"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?"

"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."

"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude."

"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."

"She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live."

"Literature is my Utopia"

"Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd ever wanted to hurt any girl. In fact, he wasn't sure he had ever wanted to hurt a girl before. Usually he just wanted them, and then he wanted them to leave him alone."

"My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences."

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

"The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters."

"What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."