The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

Mo could paint pictures in the empty air with his voice alone.

I wish you luck,' she said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy she'd ever seen. But now her heart beat so much faster for someone else.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

My wife loves written words ... you know, words that stick to parchment and paper like dead flies, and it seems my father felt the same - but I want to hear words! Remember that when you are looking for the right words: You must ask yourself what they SOUND like! Glowing with passion, dark with sorrow, sweet with love, that's what I want. - Cosimo

She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

Quite suddenly Meggie felt fear rise in her like black brackish water, she felt lost, terribly lost, she felt it in every part of her. She didn't belong here! What had she done?