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“We'd been so sure of ourselves, but now we were lost.”
“Words are themselves organisms, ...”
“Normally, words are sentfrom the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to checkthem, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they’re nicely wrappe...”
“I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.”
“In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.”
“As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.”
“Explanation is a well-dressed error.”
“One day you will be nostalgic for today.”
“...you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.”
“You were none, and now you're all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.”
“Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.”
“There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way--has an almost hypnotic effect.”
“I did not know that it was love until I knew.”
“It was from a very young age that I fell in love with this wonderful artifact--the turn of the first page is almost like a sacred ritual to me. Whenever I walk into a library, it is never without s...”
“For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.”
“Anything and everything, the two almost the same--everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.”
“It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.”
“He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go.”
“Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.”
“The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.”
