Quotes tagged ‘Finding The Right Words’

(13 total)

“I will spend my life trying to explain what is crucial to me.”

“I practice every day to find some clever lines to say to make the meaning come through.”

“If i do not have the right words, I will wait until I do. Because, patience.”

“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”

“Nothing haunts us like the important things we left unsaid, especially those we could've said in the best way we could've known how.”

“I felt that one wrong or misplaced word would be fatal, you would simply turn away, as you did, and walk off again, and again, and again.”

“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.”

“I would give you words if there were words to say.”

“There’s nothing you’re ever going to say that’s going to make anybody happy when they’re feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”

“Most novelists have only one story to tell and that, in book after book, they ring endless changes on a single essential narrative.”

“All you have to do is write one true sentence.”

“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”

“How might things have been different if he spoke only one sentence?”