“More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.”
“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”
“Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.”
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.”
“Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live.”
“At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.”