#dictionary

But when it seems insurmountable, I need reminders like this that you can get used to it. That it can take on the comfort of the right choice. That lasting things do, in fact, last. ↗

— David Levithan

#lover-s-dictionary #tableau #love

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. ↗

— George Chapman

#carry #clock #dictionary #earth #mere

Agatha Christie n. A silent, putrid fart committed by someone in this very room, and only one person knows whodunnit. ↗

— VIZ

#dictionary #humor #swearing #humor

elliptical, adj. The kiss I like the most is one of the slow ones. It’s as much breath as touch, as much no as yes. You lean in from the side, and I have to turn a little to make it happen. ↗

— David Levithan

#kiss #love #the-lover-s-dictionary #love

taciturn, adj. There are days you come home silent. You say words, but you're still silent. I used to bombard you with conversational crowbars, but now I simply let the apartment fall mute. I hear you in the room -- turning on music, typing on the keys, getting up for a drink, shifting in your chair. I try to have my conversation with those sounds. ↗

— David Levithan

#lover-s-dictionary #music

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#draws #nature #words

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed.... ↗

— Ammon Shea

#phone-book #telephone-directory #dating

As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me. The funny thing is that okayness is not a real word. It's not in the dictionary. But it's in me. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#it-s-in-me #okayness #real-word #funny

abstraction, n. Love is one kind of abstraction. And then there are those nights when I sleep alone, when I curl into a pillow that isn't you, when I hear the tiptoe sounds that aren't yours. It's not as if I can conjure you up completely. I must embrace the idea of you instead. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #lover-s-dictionary #love

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word. ↗

— Dave Barry

#big #big enough #dictionary #enough #everything