“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
Source: The Woman in White
“The injury of words.
Yes, the brutality of words.”
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Markus Zusak
,
book
The Book Thief
Source: The Book Thief
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Yes, the brutality of words." by Markus Zusak?
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