“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too empty. And sometimes people have nothing to say because they're too full.”— Yasmin Mogahed, twitter.com
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn’t, I would die.”— Isaac Asimov, amazon.com
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“What do you mean just friends and more than friends? Like when did we hardwire into our language the idea that the step past friendship is mutual face-licking?”— John Green, youtube.com
“When I was young, I was taught that the trick to dominating language was breaking it down, convincing that it was worthless; I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you; See? Nothing.”— Phil Kaye, youtube.com
“Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning. The sun shines without vocabulary. The salmon has no name for the urge that drives it upstream. The newborn groping for the nipple knows hunger long before it knows a single word. Even with an entire dictionary in one's head, one even…”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“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.”— Sofia Cope, twitter.com
“How can letters take on so many words? How can words have enough space to embrace the world?”— Mahmoud Darwish, amazon.com
“If he’s flirting with you, then there’s definitely some chemistry between you. Don’t get so distracted by his beauty that you forget to listen to his words. What he’s saying can mean a lot. Pay attention to how playful he’s being. If he’s way more flirty than usual, it could mean that he’s hoping fo…”— Tell You All, tellyouall.com
“When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“Don’t be abstruse (overtly complicated, like that choice of word).”— David Christopher, blog.tailwindapp.com
“Remember that misuse of language can lead to miscommunication, and that miscommunication leads to everything that has ever happened in the whole of the world.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com
“There is no comfort in the word 'farewell,' even if you say it in French. 'Farewell' is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”— Ann Rinaldi, amazon.com
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com