#words

If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe I am loveable. How can something as fragile as a word build a whole world? ↗

— Franny Billingsley

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Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute. ↗

— Robert Herrick

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I never met a word I didn't love ↗

— Gail Carson Levine

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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer ↗

— E.M. Forster

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Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

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How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words? ↗

— Eileen Wilks

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I love you,” she whispered. He stroked his hand down her back. “Yep, you do.” “You’re supposed to say it back,” she said, pretending to be offended because the silliness kept the fear/hope at bay. “Why?” He scowled down at her. “You know you’re my heartbeat. ↗

— Nalini Singh

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He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear. ↗

— William Faulkner

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Beneath her curls, I forget the world, With a mere gaze she raises my hopes of gold. Love is as much in her heart as in mine, But she doesn’t say it, her punishment so divine. ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

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Harper, treat your words with care For they may cause joy or despair Sing your songs of health and love Of dragons flaming from above ↗

— Anne McCaffrey

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