Making amends Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer

“the words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet every so often, the oath is taken…

— Barack Obama

“This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to…

— Mona Naqi

“I am the wind heralding death, the instrument of justice sent by our Prince to carry out the sentence pronounced on you by our…

— Christine Feehan

“I have come to learn, that when people of money and power organize to set upon to break a person they seek to silence,…

— Tom Althouse

“Speech does not always unravel matters. Words can betray you, their labyrinthine threads tangled in knots, for we were cursed at that great tower…

— Ned Hayes

“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt…

— Lyndsay Faye

“I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of…

— Peggy Randall-Martin

“. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolving within the trees—then, fleeting words of consolation would not suffice if feigned, and flippant…

— John Daniel Thieme

“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“During those days, both the bed and my little rickety table were swimming in notes and scribbled-over manuscripts that I took turns working on,…

— Knut Hamsun

“Though they are now largely silent, the voices from the seventeenth century still speak to us from the innumerable texts and images we are…

— Peter H. Wilson