“I once loved boys who wanted to make me into poetry to eulogize my being, tattoo me onto his paper, tuck away my words into thick letters and crisp envelopes. I would not be his art, so I decided to make my own.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.”— Margaret Mead, goodreads.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“After the verb ‘to love,’ ‘to help’ is the most beautiful in the world.”— Bertha Von Suttner, goodreads.com
“I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“...with trembling anxiety I had been permitted to watch over and minister to my idolized husband, through an illness and receiving his loving farewell words in return, I could have thanked him for his lifelong - almost; devotion to me & mine, and I could have asked forgiveness, for any inadvertent m…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“In grief, words are poor consolation - silence & agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.”— Kate Morton, amazon.com
“People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possi…”— Jules Verne, amazon.com
“Words fail, to tell a tale Too exotic to be told Each night's a deeper night In a world, ages old”— Ella Fitzgerald, open.spotify.com
“I didn't mean a word I said And if I hurt you, I'm sorry I didn't mean to lose my head And if I made you cry, I'm sorry”— Ella Fitzgerald, open.spotify.com
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and wo…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Their house had real hard-cover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.”— David Sedaris, 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 find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com