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“Italics are like a rash -- you never know whether to ignore them entirely or whether the more you attention you give the more…

— Zanesh Catkin

“I adore italics, don't you?”

— Ronald Firbank

“I buried the past in a shallow, unmarked grave but it does not rest in peace. It demands to be named and honored.”

— D.C. Hubbard

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

— Anthony West

“We were heading into the clumsy territory of my mother’s funeral, stretched-out silences, wrong smiles, the place where words didn’t work.”

— Donna Tartt

“I stood with my mom in the cemetery. She felt terrible pain. My grandmother is with God. My mom has to continue living. It’s…

— Tucker Elliot

“Such utterance staggers and offends among the listeners. But it also opens vistas of possibility where we had not thought to go and where…

— Walter Brueggemann

“So we are drawn to graveyards, where we can be close to the dead and ponder their fate as well as our own.”

— Julia Scheeres

“I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.”

— Toba Beta

“I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and…

— Ryan Lilly

“There are many fine things we cannot say if we have to shout.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.”

— Tom Stoppard