Quote by Julie Halpern

“I'm very sorry - the only words that could not rework into anything but what they signified.”

— Jodi Picoult

“and wasn't it an awful dangerous thing, a text message, because once you pressed that little send button, that was it. Like pulling a…

— Donal Ryan

“Say I told you so. They're the four most satisfying words in the English language. You could rupture something trying to keep them inside…

— Richard Russo

“One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink…

— Alasdair Gray

“I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and…

— Jarod Kintz

“Don’t try to defile the English language. I can think of a few other things I’d rather dirty up.  ”

— S.L. Jennings

“I tried to talk like them, cursing and cussing, mutilating the English language into a slang that I could barely stand nor understand.”

— Carol Wambui Ngabura

“It hurt, [...], in a way language could not touch.”

— John Green

“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.”

— Terry Jones

“That's the beauty of the text, I find. You can key in things you would never say, and it hardly hurts a bit.”

— Chris Lynch

“I cursed. (S-word, f-word, s-word, d-word, s-word times three, f-word, and a z-word I made up on the spot.) I kicked a brick wall.…

— Jeff Strand

“...there was no shorthand for "I'm sorry." You were obliged to speak those two words.”

— Wally Lamb