Quote by Jonathan Coe

“[...] most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.”

— Fredrik Backman

“Sometimes, the words we speak are not the words we want to say.”

— Anthony West

“[I wanted silence in the flowers, not to not say, but to not have the impulse of saying.]”

— Dawn Lundy Martin

“[...] and every time she says the word, it breaks her heart into pieces that she has to pick up in her hands and…

— Rene Denfeld

“[...] I've learned something about my own hunches: the only time they turn out to be meaningful is when I ignore them.”

— Steven Brust

“Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.”

— Nyrae Dawn

“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.”

— Valeria Luiselli

“Words are an unnecessary trouble. Expression is time wasting away. Any communication is just a yelp in the darkness.”

— Joseph Fink

“Sometimes words aren't needed.”

— Gavin Extence

“Words do not necessarily work, it is possible for them to obscure the things they are trying to say.”

— Paul Auster

“Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.”

— Carolee Dean

“Perhaps you think too hard about what words you're going to use and how to make your mouth say them.”

— Ali Shaw