“Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all.”
“Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.”
“It is a magic book. Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind.”
“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”
“In my opinion, I'm quite certain that Dr. Miroslav Volf most always means simply what he says and says exactly what he means and he no more speaks in 'code' than I do".~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
“The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”