Single Word Quotes

140 Single Word quotes by 121 unique authors

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a… — Rachel Vincent
What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural. — Linda Howard
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It… — Lauren Oliver
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on… — Augusten Burroughs
She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her. — Ann Brashares
His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always. — Ann Aguirre
At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would… — Nicole Krauss
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. — Virginia Woolf
I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of… — Margaret Weis
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never… — Kristin Hannah
breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word. — David Levithan
HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON. "oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's… — Rick Riordan
There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all,… — Oscar Wilde
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out… — Charles Dickens
a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies… — Alice Hoffman
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so… — Charles Simic
I cannot think of a single word to describe what we feel. I think we all feel it, to varying degrees. Perhaps in some other… — David Levithan
I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke… — Mahmoud Darwish
Here is The Boy with the Thorn in His Side, dying in your world. A man made monster with every human emotion, overdosed on worthlessness… — Pete Wentz
For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent… — Jeffrey Eugenides
There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man — George Orwell
I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. — Lauren Oliver
The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM — Stephen King

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