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He rubbed my arm, whispering words that sounded like moth bodies flying into glass windows.
— Lauren DeStefano
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
— Thiruvalluvar
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
— Lauren Oliver
These words came, quite clear, like small, evil people, across the cobbles to Branza's ankles, where they stood and smirked up at her.
— Margo Lanagan
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
— Hortense Calisher
O,speak to me no more;these words like daggers enter my ears.(a fancy way of saying SHUT UP!)" - William Shakespeare "hamlet — William Shakespeare
Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.
— Will Schwalbe
Ari's words felt like drops of sunlight upon my skin, and my frame was burning with longing.
— Petra March
Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell's wall. To write like that.
— Anna Kamienska
A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein
— Mark Rubinstein
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
— Steven Erikson
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought. — Dan Simmons
I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.
— Kathie Lee Gifford
I swear it looked like she wanted her words to slither around us and go out the door unheard.
— Jazz Feylynn
Mystery always there in my words, now these are knives and will shine like Swords-Samar Sudha — Samar Sudha
The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.
— David Icke
I feel as though I'm playing a part like those mummers who travel the roads, only I don't know the words properly, or how I'm supposed to act.
— Mark Lawrence
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
— Marya Mannes
In the increasingly convincing darknessThe words become palpable, like a fruit
That is too beautiful to eat. — John Ashbery
There are words which cut like steel.
— Honore De Balzac
My girl. Despite my discomfort in him speaking of me like a possession, I felt a strange tingling in my chest as he said the words.
— Bella Forrest
I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
— Viggo Mortensen
Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
— Alan Furst
Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic.
— Heather Anastasiu
His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars. — James S.A. Corey
I'll love her like this, without words, but with my life.
— Laurelin Paige
Harsh words pierce like a spear and they destroy the inner being.
— Euginia Herlihy
Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as they should be.
— David McDonald
The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
— Anonymous
Words like "God" and "Allah" must go the way of "Apollo" and "Baal," or they will unmake our world.
— Sam Harris
There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
— Bud Macfarlane Jr.
Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
This is your day to shine. It is up to you in how you will like the world to see you.
— Steven Cuoco
The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.
— Marcus Aurelius
A cut. That's what I felt. Words can cut, slice, like a razor.
— Megan Miranda
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W.S. Merwin
Literature is the heart and the soul of a society. Like music it's the words expressing multitude of emotions, self riposte and gripping thoughts.
— Shilpa Sandesh
A brain is like a muscle, a serial connection that you should train everyday; if you don't use it, you loose it
— Ana Claudia Antunes
It was those words that made me fall in love with him. Right there in that spot. Because he wanted me to be like him. That was his normalcy.
— Amber L. Johnson
Aaron would never make up anything like that.""That's because Aaron doesn't say anything that requires words of more than one syllable. — Richelle Mead
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
— Jeanette Winterson
The words are on my tongue - the rounded lumps of them, shining like the marbles beneath the tree.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Promise is a word like any other. Words can go in any direction. It's only the body that is incapable of lying.
— Meg Howrey
I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.
— Jillian Keenan
In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.
— Jason E. Hodges
We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What have you eaten today?""Humble pie, my own words, and a little crow. All three taste like shit. — Rachel Vincent
So who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?
— Janet Kagan
They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field. — San Juan De La Cruz
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
— Peter De Vries
You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.
— Rob Thurman
The words issuing from her lips like crumbs of dry biscuit.
— Virginia Woolf
Writing to please all tastes is like cooking without seasoning...
— Nanette L. Avery
I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.
— Michael Crichton
This is what a place like this does to you. It makes you put words in the beaks of chickens.
— Danielle Paige
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
— Alan Moore
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
— Deborah Palumbo
I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.
— Tammara Webber
Words are important. They let you know it's real, you're fine, more people like you exist. They let you know you're not alone.
— RoAnna Sylver
Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.
— Rachel Caine
Trap is a four-letter word, and like so many four-letter words it can mean something entirely else.--Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin
Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me.
— Roger Zelazny
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.
— Gordon Strachan
A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.
— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.
— Donna Lynn Hope
I like to write about the way things used to be and paint pictures of my memories with beautiful words and melodies.
— Lana Del Rey
I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
— Colm Toibin
