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...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...


John Geddes


#love-hurts #poetry #snowman #unyeilding-words #words

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...


John Geddes


#love-lost #poetry-quote #understanding #wisdom #words

Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They're grown right here in our orchards." "I didn't know that words grew on trees," said Milo timidly. "Where did you think they grew?" shouted the earl irritably. A small crowd began to gather to see the little boy who didn't know that letters grew on trees. "I didn't know they grew at all," admitted Milo even more timidly. Several people shook their heads sadly. "Well, money doesn't grow on trees, does it?" demanded the count. "I've heard not," said Milo. "Then something must. Why not words?" exclaimed the undersecretary triumphantly. The crowd cheered his display of logic and continued about its business.


Norton Juster


#business

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.


118


#death-penalty #family #last-words #love #death

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.


J.K. Rowling


#trust #death

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.


Siri Hustvedt


#speech #thought #words #men

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.


Jodi Picoult


#joy #limits #wonder #words #change

The latter. She had a good run," Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.


Lisa Lutz


#humor #way-with-words #death

It was a wartime story, goodies versus baddies, lots of explosions and shooting. The Germans always shouted 'Aiiieeee!' as they died. Atkins wondered what he would choose, confronted with similar circumstances. 'Aiiieeee!' seemed to him to lack the necessary gravitas and originality, as well as sounding a bit, well, German. But then who knew what might come to mind, in those final moments?


Alastair Reynolds


#last-words #war #death

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.


Charles Reade


#deeds #earth #great #men #men and women






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