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#1

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”
― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale

tags: books, power-of-words

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#2

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― Alan Bennett, The History Boys

tags: books, history, reading

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#4

“A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.”
― Henry Hazlitt, Thinking as a Science

tags: language, power-of-words, vocabulary, words

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#5

“To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Arthur

tags: god, good-and-evil, morals, power-of-words

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#6

“It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

tags: power-of-words, words

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#7

“He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.”
― Robert Cormier, I Am the Cheese

tags: literary, news, power-of-words, words

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#8

“All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.”
― Vera Nazarian, Dreams Of The Compass Rose

tags: change, change-the-world, fantasy, fiction, future, imagination, literature, narrative, narrator, power, power-of-words, reality, responsibility, responsible, shaping, stories, story, story-telling, storyteller, storytellers, storytelling, true, truth, truths, voice, voice-of-wisdom, wisdom, world

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#9

“If literature truly possesses a mysterious power, I think perhaps it is precisely this: that one can read a book by a writer of a different time, a different country, a different race, a different language, and a different culture and there encounter a sensation that is one's very own.”
― Yu Hua, 十個詞彙裡的中國

tags: literature, power-of-words, reading

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#10

“There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?”
― Mark Dunn, Under the Harrow

tags: ideas-are-power, power-of-words, words

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#11

“A writer need not be bound by flat statement like "It was a rough sea," when verbs like tumble and roil and seethe wait to spell from her pen.”
― Rebecca McClanahan, Word Painting: A Guide to Writing More Descriptively

tags: description, diction, power-of-words

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#12

“I know what that does to a man, to walk the earth with the burden of his sin on his back. It poisons all he touches.”
― Lori Benton, A Flight of Arrows

tags: burden, poison, sin

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#13

“There's a preacher on the radio that says the Beatles are trying to hypnotize us and turn us all into Communists. I was listening to 'Hey, Jude' the other day and I had the urge to move to Cuba, so there might be something to it.”
― Chris Fabry, The Promise of Jesse Woods

tags: communisim, preachers

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#14

“Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.”
― Chris Fabry, The Promise of Jesse Woods

tags: choices, choices-and-consequences, life-and-living

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#15

“Gerald's arm rose and fell the same way to any song he led, no matter the time signature. He had a nasal twang when he spoke and sang, like a younger Grandpa Jones, but his pitch wasn't bad and he seemed to enjoy song-leading. His job was to get everybody started at the same place and everybody stopped when the song was over, but whatever happened in the middle was up to God and the congregation.”
― Chris Fabry, The Promise of Jesse Woods

tags: conducting, congregations, singing

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#16

“The cakes and pies and casseroles beckoned like gastronomic sirens, and there was no one to lash me to the mast.”
― Chris Fabry, The Promise of Jesse Woods

tags: eating, food, food-addiction, food-love

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#17

“I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.”
― Tammy L. Gray, My Hope Next Door

tags: consequences, identity, mistakes, regret

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#18

“Love isn't measured by what we gain. It's measured by how much we give away.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

tags: love

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#19

“Character is built on every decision we make, especially those we make in secret.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

tags: character

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#20

“Good character isn't produced overnight; it's grown over many seasons. In the same way you sort the good apples from the bad, the marks of poor characters are just as easy to detect.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

tags: character

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#21

“The whole forbidden-romance thing . . . it's a myth. No woman ever marries the man they have to hide. The adventure, the adrenaline, those things are fun while they last. But that kind of commitment is as temporary as the heartache you feel now.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

tags: forbidden-love, romance

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#22

“Consequences aren't always physical. Not the ones that hurt the most anyway.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

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#23

“Every opportunity worth pursuing comes with a price tag. Either sweat or sacrifice. Sometimes both.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

tags: opportunity

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#24

“Bitterness can compromise a heart the way fireblight disease can consume an apple orchard.”
― Nicole Deese, The Promise of Rayne

tags: bitterness, bitterness-and-hatred

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#25

“Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: philosophy

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#26

“The medievals loved to say that God wrote two books: nature and Scripture. And since he is the author of both books, and since this Teacher never contradicts himself, these two books never contradict each other. And since this God who never contradicts himself also gave us the two truth detectors, faith and reason, it follows that faith and reason, properly used, never contradict each other. Therefore, all heresies are contrary to reason. Not all the truths of faith can be proved by reason, but all arguments against the truths of faith can be disproved by reason.”
― Peter Kreeft, Socrates Meets Jesus: History's Greatest Questioner Confronts the Claims of Christ

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#27

“Cole is a man, a hero. A friend. Toxic is a choice.”
― Ronie Kendig, Conspiracy of Silence

tags: cole, kasey, tox

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#28

“You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

tags: mistakes

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#29

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

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#30

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

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#31

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

tags: books, reading

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