“Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.”— Samantha Shannon, amazon.com
“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Sometimes people say terrible things when they’re scared. They don’t mean to, but they can’t help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren’t completely powerless.”— Jonathan Maberry, amazon.com
“Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.”— Herman Koch, amazon.com
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”— Jack Gilbert, amazon.com
“That’s all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.”— Raymond Carver, nytimes.com
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actio…”— Sigmund Freud, amazon.com
“Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.”— Allen Ginsberg, goodreads.com
“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.”— Anne Carson, amazon.com
“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructe…”— Donald Miller, amazon.com
“So I stopped talking about it. There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”— Bernhard Schlink, amazon.com