Quotes About Expression

Those who write them do," Ferus said. "They leave bits and pieces behind them when they lay down the words, some scraps and smears of their essential nature." He sniffed. "Most untidy, really—but assemble enough scraps and one might have something approaching a whole.

Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose

My imagination needs therapy.

Ascher eyed me. "You have a very negative attitude. Just relax and we'll get this done. Try not to look around so much. And for God's sake, smile." I smiled. "Maybe without clenching your jaw.

A smile fought its way through her expression of pain for a moment, and she said, "Yeah, it really kind of was, wasn't it? Was that a Salamander?" "Pretty sure," I said. "They're so much bigger than in those Xanth books.

Magic is a lot like language: it's all about stringing things together, linking one thing with another, one idea with another.

He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks.

Kitai blinked slowly. Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous. We have a lot of words like that, Tavi said. They can mean more than one thing. That is stupid, Kitai said. It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.

Uh," I said, feeling somewhat off balance. "What do I think of gay guys?" "Yes." "Boink and let boink, more or less.

There was a universe of pain residing in that ellipses.

metaphors can only take you for a short walk on a tight leash.

And just because I don't go to bed with everything with a vagina doesn't mean I'm repressed.

Magic comes from the heart, from your feelings, your deepest expressions of desire.

purple is my favorite color that isn't black, and

I don't make metaphors. ... I'm too busy being one. - Leanansidhe

Subtle and quick to anger?" "Not so subtle.

Crap," I said. I'm quite eloquent in times of crisis

Words have a power every bit as terrible and beautiful as magic.

Nipple erection on command—now that's method acting. Oh

But I'd never been very good at expressing myself verbally.

Cujo growled at me in the rearview mirror again, and I beamed at him. Smiling always seems to annoy people more than actually insulting them. Or maybe I just have an annoying smile.

It's not everyone who can teach you something about faith without saying a word to do it.

she'd read enough of them to know that they were only as valuable as the contents of their writers' minds—and to her it seemed that a great many writers, had they been merchants, would have precious little inventory.

I laughed, and Sanya and I traded a hug, a manly hug with a lot of back thumping, which he then ruined with one of those Russian kisses on both cheeks.