“There is a weird power in a spoken word.”
“There it is: the spoken admission that he was hers to lose. As soon as the words leave my mouth, I feel weirdly deflated, as though they've been swollen, balloonlike, in my chest this whole time”
“Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.”
“Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.”
“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”
“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”