“the churn of stale words in the heart againlove love love thud of the old plungerpestling the unalterablewhey of words”

“I am fond of lovely old words like 'locomotive'.”

“Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word I had never before dared to think about him.Future. Hope.And love, as the rain slowed to a misty trickle through the long and beautiful night.”

“Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches. ”

“Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.”

“I recall the words, the faces, the stale perfume and the pungent odor that filled the room..”