“'Yggdrasil' - in Norse cosmology, the great ash tree at the cosmos's centre, the branches & roots of which connect different realms & times, allowing passage from underworld to heaven. One of many such 'world-trees' that stand rooted in global cultures.”— Robert Macfarlane, twitter.com
“Every word we utter is a prayer. We must always speak in a manner that promotes love and harmony.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“My father one told me that the very word "paradise" meant garden, spelling out for me the four letters (pe resh dalet samech) of pardes, the Hebrew word for garden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aesthetic experience, but one steeped with mystery, with awe”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“The biggest difference between men and women... Is what comes to mind when the word "Facial" is used.”— WarMachine79, reddit.com
“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”— Viv Albertine, amazon.com
“It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com
“A word, my lady. We are but poor, lost circus performers. Is there a village nearby?”— William Goldman, Vizzini, Wallace Shawn, amazon.com