“Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
Source: The Runaway Queen
“Lightwoods,” Magnus said. “They always have to have the last word.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
Context: Despereaux looked down at the book, and something remarkable happened. The marks on the pages, the "squiggles" as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time
“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”
Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer
Source: Raven's Shadow
Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) German mathematician and physical scientist
"Gauss's Abstract of the Disquisitiones Generales circa Superficies Curvas presented to the Royal Society of Gottingen" (1827) Tr. James Caddall Morehead & Adam Miller Hiltebeitel in General Investigations of Curved Surfaces of 1827 and 1825 (1902)
Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 599.
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Words (between the lines of age)
Song lyrics, Harvest (1972)