Dining table Quote by Anthony Doerr

“Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.”

— Emma Donoghue

“Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to…

— Noel Monk

“If someone had the ability to sit at every table at once, he would hear nothing but good about himself, and yet even such…

— Joseph Roth

“They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters…

— Brian Francis Slattery

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.”

— Stephen Covey

“She was his like a table or a chair, but a table owned you, too - by your fingerprints.”

— Graham Greene

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Words were not things you could control.…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“For me the words should be like a pane of glass that you look through, not at.”

— Ken Follett

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“It was interesting how you could say things when you were walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye…

— Liane Moriarty

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“They didn't speak a word, but it was still their best conversation in a long time.”

— Katrina Kittle