words! mere words!

How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?"

[thesewordsareallwehave]

... for Gods die, when their believers are gone, but the Endless will be here when the last God has gone beyond the Realm of Death, and into non-existence.

The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman

[thesewordsareallwehave]

My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.

'The Fault in our Stars' by John Green

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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" - 'A Case of Identity' - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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a tale / told by an idiot, full of sound and fury / signifying nothing

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

[thesewordsareallwehave]

I'm not quite sure how to describe this band's music, except to say that it sounds like a hundred thousand weasels being dropped into a boiling ocean.

'Will Grayson, Will Grayson' - John Green and David Levithan

[thesewordsareallwehave]

Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

'Antony and Cleopatra' by William Shakespeare

[thesewordsareallwehave]

Noboru Wataya was young and single and smart enough to write a book that nobody could understand. It made him famous.

'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami

[thesewordsareallwehave]

Clive, you're a silly little fool, and since you've brought it up I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

Maurice by E.M. Forster

[thesewordsareallwehave]

Words deserted him immediately. He could only speak when he was not asked to.

'Maurice' by E. M. Forster

[thesewordsareallwehave]

A trouble--nothing as beautiful as sorrow--rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank.

'Maurice' by E. M. Forster

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These are but wild and whirling words, my lord.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

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"No," Harry corrected him. "He must've known you'd always want to come back."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling

[thesewordsareallwehave]

The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

[thesewordsareallwehave]

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

'De Profundis' by Oscar Wilde

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The most terrible thing about it is not that it break's one's heart--hearts are made to be broken--but that it turns one's heart to stone.

'De Profundis' by Oscar Wilde

[thesewordsareallwehave]

"Man must suffer to be wise."

Agamemnon by Aeschylus