What is a Word's worth?

In short, words have the power to captivate us, to entrance us, and to bring us to places we have never been. This blog is dedicated to the words within literature or films that move me. Enjoy :)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Marcus Aurelius (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[anabethmarie]

He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they fell by chance, they would rest on her. If she spoke, he gave no sign of attention, and yet his next speech to any one else was modified by what she had said; sometimes there was an express answer to what she had remarked, but given to another person as though unsuggested by her.

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (via mostarrdently)

[crevoke]

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Ernest Hemingway  (via

withonefootinafairytale

)

[quotethat]

Forgive. Such a small word. Only seven letters but they carry the weight of the world.

A. Meredith Walters, Light in the Shadows (via quotethat)

[jamiefraserlovers]

This is Scotland. Of course not liking whisky is a crime!

Roger. (via jamiefraserlovers)

[wordswithworth]

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers (via wordswithworth)

[hellyeahitsrandom]

Her eyes are like two open books and I suddenly want to devour every page.

Colleen Hoover, Never Never (via hellyeahitsrandom)

[wordsnquotes]

It’s such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

Mitch Albom, For One More Day (via wordsnquotes)

[b-ookquotes]

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones (via b-ookquotes)

[mariabwahaha]

Every breath is a new beginning and a new chance.

Julia Gregson, Jasmine Nights (via mariabwahaha)

[tessalivesandbreathesbooks]

I’m not interested in making what’s easy. I’m interested in making what’s beautiful.

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (via once-upon-a-time-10)

[antimoons]

You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

Robert Jordan (via indapendent)

[jspark3000]

Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

C.S. Lewis (via jspark3000)

[theclivechronicles]

It was the stars themselves which were singing, and it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made them appear and made them sing.

C.S. Lewis [The Magician’s Nephew] (via theclivechronicles)

[bookmania]

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via bookmania)

[stuffgurlswant]

I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.

Alber Elbaz (via stuffgurlswant)

[anabethmarie]

He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they fell by chance, they would rest on her. If she spoke, he gave no sign of attention, and yet his next speech to any one else was modified by what she had said; sometimes there was an express answer to what she had remarked, but given to another person as though unsuggested by her.

Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South (via mostarrdently)