Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.

She couldn't tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself

It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts,because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world.

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

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.

And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams.And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words before she goes to sleep.

Mouths are longer than they are wide, to ensure words don’t come out sideways. Even the word “sideways” comes out straight.