Quotes About Words

Words, unbidden, curled like smoke into her mind, his voice thick velvet over gravel. Intelligent, seductive, alluring. Dark . . .

There's no way anyone could know of her marital strain. Yet Fareed's words cut close to the bone. Much too close.

The Reader flexes a hand that is stiff and still stained with blood. The Reader holds all the power. It is the Reader who breathes life into these words on the page, makes them whole and tangible and frightening in the real world. The

Once your words fly out of your mouth, you sometimes can't control whether they fly straight or crooked, Grandma Augustine says. "They can get bent in the strangest ways." Grandma Augustine says that the only way to straighten out bad words is to keep making good ones until you say what you need to say to who you need to say it to.

History isn't only a subject; it's also a method. My method is, generally, to let the dead speak for themselves. I've pressed their words between these pages, like flowers, for their beauty, or like insects, for their hideousness. The work of the historian is not the work of the critic or of the moralist; it is the work of the sleuth and the storyteller, the philosopher and the scientist, the keeper of tales, the sayer of sooth, the teller of truth.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some. Ebenezar tsked. Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

Sticks and stones and small caliber bullets may break my bones... Words will never, et cetera.

Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words help to define those thoughts. That's why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell caster's mind.

Like life is short," he said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said.

The words first. Damned near everything begins with words. I am, I breathed, and suddenly the ice was clear of my mouth. I am Harry... I panted, and the pain redoubled. And I laughed. As if some freak who never loved enough to know loss could tell me about pain.

Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real. Those three words are good

In the void, there is no distinction of east and west. Gwen blinked slightly at that. I know all of those words, and yet when strung together like that I have no idea what they mean.

A duel would mean a fair fight, and I hate fair fights. In the words of a murderous Faerie Queen, they're too easy to lose. Of

Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real.

Kitai blinked slowly. Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous. We have a lot of words like that, Tavi said. They can mean more than one thing. That is stupid, Kitai said. It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.

But dammit, words mean what they mean, even if everyone thinks they ought to mean something else.

I trust you," she said. Three words. Big ones. Especially coming from her.

Surely, that is merely a colorful euphemism, rather than a statement of desire.

Like 'love,' 'hope' is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer. (Harry Dresden - Turn Coat)

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic, and they don't need a special effects budget to do it, either.

If the beginning of wisdom is in realizing that one knows nothing, then the beginning of understanding is in realizing that all things exist in accord with a single truth: Large things are made of smaller things. Drops of ink are shaped into letters, letters form words, words form sentences, and sentences combine to express thought.

Words created the future, exacerbated problems, raised barriers between them. But in the silence of Ford's sleep, Ford could love Dan easily; in the stillness of Ford's rest, Dan could adore him without question or fear.