#or

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#words

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. ↗

— Wisława Szymborska

#silence #words

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#words

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#secrets #sharing-secrets #words

I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#words

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#pain #perfect #truthful #words

You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#words

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream. ↗

— John Lennon

#power-of-words #words

Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy-jackson #zoe-nightshade #right

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#glittering-eyes #hidden #magic #secrets #unlikely-places