Quote by Cara McKenna

“The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment.”

— Dawn Jayne

“Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”

— Algernon Blackwood

“...and the magisterial presence of all those words stopped her in her tracks.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She hit us,” the woman shrieked. That was the gist of it anyway. There were a lot of unladylike words that began with “F,”…

— Patricia Briggs

“Jane became something of a walking thesaurus when she was upset, a side effect of too much reading.”

— Cynthia Hand

“His image shifted jerkily once, twice. She caught the sound of his voice deconstructed into halting and meaningless syllables. And then the window went…

— Rob Thomas

“I put the sexy in dyslexia.”

— Mariah Gonzales

“It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.”

— Andrew Jackson

“She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence.”

— Elizabeth Strout

“Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.”

— Jennifer Archer

“She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words”

— Markus Zusak