“Speech without word and
Word of no speech
Grace to the Mother
For the Garden
Where all love ends.”

“Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“She can find in her bewilderment no words wherewith to begin, how to order or where to end her speech; fain would she pour out all in her first utterance, but not even the first words doth fear-stricken shame allow her.”
Nec quibus incipiat demens videt ordine nec quo quove tenus, prima cupiens effundere voce omnia, sed nec prima pudor dat verba timenti.

“Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing else.”

“"Where the hell is Ronan?" Gansey asked, echoing the words that thousands of humans had uttered since mankind developed speech.”

“It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes… The general opinion is, however, that words, not phones or phonemes or phoneme systems, are the units of speech.”

“Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact — it is silence which isolates.”

“As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."”

“When a tongue at the wrong moment shoots off sharp-pointed words to rouse and hurt the spirit, speech may well soothe speech.”