Your childhood," said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.
Tags: words past history childhood memory memories thoughts
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
Siri HustvedtTags: words reading books literature
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers. There are probably words addressed to our condition exactly, which, if we could really hear and understand, would be more salutary than the morning or the spring to our lives, and possibly put a new aspect on the face of things for us. How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David ThoreauTags: words reading books literature
Memories fade but words hang around forever.
Daniel H. WilsonFigures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.
H.G. WellsTags: words power writing literature letters typography calligraphy fonts typeface
The true poem rests between the words.
Vanna BontaTags: words poetry writing poem
I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.
Jack GilbertI suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.
Anita BrooknerTags: words reading books literature
We knew the difference between that which cannot be expressed and that which must. We understood that while words are a path taking us only so far, they are a requisite to the journey. They are like road maps that show us which way to go.
Laura BynumTags: words books censorship
For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.
Stefan ZweigTags: words reading books literature
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