#words

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#words #romantic

You...are...a...fridge...with wings,' Fang ground out, punching an Eraser hard with every word. 'We're...freaking...ballet...dancers. ↗

— James Patterson

#words

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#pretend #richelle #richelle-goodrich #words #writing

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#english

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#words #language

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#river #time #water #words #water

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#grammar

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending. ↗

— Cees Nooteboom

#fantasy #language #night-thoughts #self-deception #self-knowledge

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#words #l-m-montgomery

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#expensive #heads #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy