Language Quote by Fredrik Backman

“[H]e could feel his unshakable enemy, depression, blooming in him like a pernicious flower that could never quite be ripped out.”

— Andrea Speed

4 letter word: L O V E

— Mike Rivera

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

“Sir U__ fell down from a speeding train, Which did some damage to his brain, And after that he did not know How to…

— Anonymous

“The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his vision circuits…

— Douglas Adams

“They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter…

— Douglas Adams

This thing we share can be described in four simple letters: L.O.V.E.

— Kemis Khan

“the long vowel opening at the centre of a consonant world”

— Karen Solie

“Why use a 10 letter word you can barely pronounce...when a four letter one will do.”

— Timothy Pina

“[H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long…

— A. S. Byatt

“He killed me at the Scrabble board, barely concentrating, and on those occasions when speech was necessary he had a way of compressing large…

— Tim O'Brien

“He also thought that ‘abbreviation’ was too long for its meaning, that ‘monosyllabic’ should have one syllable, ‘dyslexic’ should be renamed ‘O’ and ‘unspeakable’…

— Jasper Fforde