And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane.

Sarah Winman
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  1. All words are pegs to hang ideas on. - Henry Ward Beecher
  2. A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. - Anonymous
  3. No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi
  4. Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon. - Joseph Bruchac
  5. A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping. - Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Sarah Winman
  1. The principles of catching rumours were, in fact, similar to the principals of catching dreams, but because rumour was weightier, the catcher had to be positioned closer to the ground. Rumour flew low, dreams flew high, and somewhere in between were prayers.
  2. And I wonder what the sound of a heart breaking might be. And I think it might be quiet, unperceptively so, and not dramatic at all. Like the sound of an exhausted swallow falling gently to earth.
  3. The choir sang and the old man sang and Drake couldn't sing, and suddenly he began to cry because of the music, because of the sound of the boys' voices, because of what they might turn into.
  4. And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane.
  5. Those left behind prayed constantly for peace but prayers came back with Return to Sender stamped all over them. Only the roll call of the dead grew.
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