I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: words reading books poetry literature language healing trauma
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.
Thomas BernhardStichwörter: words friends reading books literature
To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.
Gerhard RichterStichwörter: words communication painting pointless
There were people who read and there were the others. Whether you were the a reader or a non-reader was soon apparent. There was no greater distinction between people.
Pascal MercierStichwörter: words books literature
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other."
He's right. We did.
The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.
Stichwörter: words dead book right quote snow end hunger game katniss arrow collins coin mockingjay everdeen suzane
At first, all is black and white.
Black on white.
That's where I'm walking, through pages.
These pages.
Sometimes it gets so that I have one foot in the pages and the words, and the other in what they speak of.
Stichwörter: words pages speak black-and-white
The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?
Markus ZusakStichwörter: words touch eyes pages
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence DurrellWords have consequences.
Albert MarrinStichwörter: words consequences
If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.
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