Father Quote by Kim Edwards

“I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten…

— Evelyn Waugh

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

— Zora Neale Hurston

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In…

— Alice Hoffman

Later - when things happened that they could never have imagined - she wrote him a letter that said: When will you learn that…

— Nicole Krauss

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds…

— Mark Helprin

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

— Susie Dent

I grew up with a love of words.

— Essie Davis

It made her think about how she couldn't believe how big the universe was, but how small it was for her.

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“She was convinced a word existed, a noun, that meant the loss of feelings for someone who was formerly loved—a word for the act…

— Olivia Sudjic

That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it…

— Pascal Mercier

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

— Sarah Addison Allen

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for.

— Lisa Kleypas