“I think jalapeno sounds like a bunch of letters piling into a beat-up old word to get tacos.”
“Live. If you mix the letters up in the words like and love, you get live.”
“I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.”
“He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92”
“sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.”
“(My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)”