Embraced Quote by J.R. Ward

They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones…

— Shannon Hale

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

— Barack Obama

“There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.”

— Jack London

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

— Patricia A. McKillip

Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find…

— Cornelia Funke

“There was no need for words, for there are times when words can only hint at what the heart would wish to say.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Everyone wanted to have a word, but nobody wanted to say anything that mattered.”

— Alan Bradley

“All that they lacked was the gift that descended upon the chosen disciples at Pentecost, in tongues of flame; symbolizing, it would seem, not…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There were some things gestures could communicate that words never could.”

— SM Reine

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

— Katrina Kittle

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them,…

— Leigh Hunt

“Words could be empty. It was the return of a gesture that held meaning. And”

— Claire Cameron