“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.”

“Words.Im surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate.Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus.Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent.Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.Words h...”

“Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.”

“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”

“I love the smell of my mothers hair after she washes it.I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my fathers face before he shaves.But Ive never been able to tell them.”

“Maybe I'm not so different from everyone else after all. It's like somebody gave me a puzzle, but I don't have the box with the picture on it. So I don't know what the final thing is supposed to lo...”

“The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism I was supposed to transcend. Now I was beginning to ...”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“Silence is a powerful tool.”