“Hardly anything remained of which he could speak aloud.”
“These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid.For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.”
“He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.”
“And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.”
“I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to”
“The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.”