Word Meanings Quotes (10 quotes)

“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,
more perfect than all that a man can invent.”
― Roman Payne, The Love of Europa: Limited Time Edition

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“I love the idea that a name might change based on who you are at a given moment in time.

Lia”
― Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

tags: indian-words, name-changes, names, word-meanings

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“There were the years— years of childhood and innocence— when I had believed that carminative meant— well, carminative. And now, before me lies the rest of my life— a day, perhaps, ten years, half a century, when I shall know that carminative means windtreibend.”
― Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

tags: british-humor, humorous, huxley, word-meanings

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“The bad angels were the jinn, and the good angels were the jinn too, and we spoke to them both in the desert. In Arabic, jinn has the same root as the word for paradise, jenna. The word for jinn and the word for paradise both have the same root as the word for madness, junun. To be close to the jinn is to be close to madness, is to be even closer to paradise.”
― Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora

tags: angels, arabic, hannah-lillith-assadi, madness, paradise, sonora, word-meanings, word-origins, words

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“One day in the future, the meaning of *irie* will move on, and it will become just another word with a long list of archaic or obsolete definitions. *Is everything irie?* someone will ask you in a perfect American accent. *Everything's irie,* you will respond, meaning everything's just okay, but you really don't feel like talking about it. Neither of you will know about Abraham or the Rastafari religion or the Jamaican dialect. The word will be devoid of any history at all.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

tags: irie, word-meanings, words

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“You know how there are words that never really—they are never really quite right. You can't quite trust them. Use them. You know. Without pause.'

'There are words I stare at,' Zach says. 'Strange. Every time. Misled, that's one. I see mizzled. And unshed. I read unched.'

'Me too! But that's a different thing—except, now you mention it, it's odd about unshed, that it's only for tears. Mostly. Hardly ever blood, for instance, you don't see unshed blood. Unched. Not really.'

'Not in my case anyway. Mine sheds all over the joint! I'm a bleeder all right.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

tags: be-my-wolff, blood, boxer, boxing, dialogue, emma-richler, erudite, misread, not-quite-right, not-right, reading, witty, word-meanings, wordplay, words

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“She pursued his lips,' Zach laughs. 'Another one I misread! Pursued for "pursed." You know. She pursed her lips. So whenever you do that now, reach out and touch my lips to shut me up? I think, she pursued his lips.'

'That's so silly,' smiles Rachel.

'I know that. Now I'm pursuing your lips,' he adds.

When Zach kisses her, Rachel is often aware of the pulse in his lower labial, a small heartbeat there. She is aware of a pulsing and a slight thickening of tissue. How many times has this boy bled from his mouth? How many times.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

tags: be-my-wolff, bleeding, boxer, boxing, dialogue, emma-richler, kiss, lips, misread, playful, romantic, word-meanings, wordplay, words

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“I love your loins, that's all,' Rachel says quietly. 'And now I love the word itself, and how words change, I love that too. And all the parts of you, I love them. That's all. And I'm not sad,' she whispers, gasping a little at the shock of her own tears, hot and extravagant, tears that catch the light in her lashes before they drop and roll across Zach's thighs, sparkling capsules, kaleidoscopic, the flow dynamic.”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

tags: be-my-wolff, crying, declaration-of-love, descriptive, emma-richler, loins, love, sad, tears, word-meanings, words

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“A year later, there is another miscarriage, another lost boy, and then an operation, and Rachel is in a muddle. Another missed carriage, she hears, conjuring a vision of Mama in a typical dash from the house, hurrying for trains to other cities where she will conduct music and choirs. Rachel sees Katya on a railway platform, suitcase and baton box in hand, but Mama is too late, the train hurtles by, screaming through the arches, a great train of missed carriages. Rachel's night-time wish is granted then, that though Katya has left her once again, she must return home as quickly. She has missed her carriage.

'Mama,' Rachel whispers into the night bedroom air, 'Mama, hurry home!”
― Emma Richler, Be My Wolff

tags: be-my-wolff, child, child-s-perspective, emma-richler, miscarriage, misunderstanding, word-meanings, wordplay, words

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“Remember too that to me the word myth, like the words fable and fiction, is a technical term in criticism, and the popular sense in which it means something untrue I regard as a debasing of language.”
― Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination

tags: myth, word-meanings

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