#word

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#feelings #habit #love #show #truth

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savouring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch. ↗

— Kate Forsyth

#kate-forsyth #love-of-words #writing #love

Disappear, she says. I love that word. ↗

— Will Christopher Baer

#words #love

live well laugh often and love much ↗

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

#love

Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming. ↗

— Elizabeth Haydon

#learning-to-handle-a-sword #age

I love bright words, words up and singing early; Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing; Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees; I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly, Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting. ↗

— Elinor Wylie

#love

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic? ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#strange #words #love

These two oo in "book" are like the two eyes of a reader who fell in love with a story. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#books-reading #literature #passion #reading #word

Tell me anything. Tell me everything. Revoke our time apart. Love me fierce in danger. ↗

— James Ellroy

#love

It must be lovely to be grown up, Marilla, when just being treated as if you were is so nice...Well, anyway, when I grow up, I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were, too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#growing-up #love