“I held in the sneeze, though, by thinking of the word cucumber. It always works.”
“Be careful, though.""Aren't I always?""No, I think the word for how you usually are is 'reckless.”
“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.”
“She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.”
“I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.”
“Words...have always held the dangerous power to conjure things into being.”