Words I Never Said Quotes

#1. I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything ... All of the words I'd written to her over all of those years, had I never said anything to hear at all?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. I don't see the point, in making the point that you will never say or do something by doing what you said you would never do ... ????

Emma Paul

#3. The entire time, he'd only ever looked at my body, never at my face, his empty eyes hungry, never seeing me at all. I wasn't the presence of a person, but a body. I could have said anything, he wouldn't have heard me. He'd never responded, not by stopping, not with his words.

Aspen Matis

#4. You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#5. People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

Demi Lovato

#6. I hate that I can't take back what I said. I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But just beat her up with words.

Katie Kacvinsky

#7. Ishy, you got any homework?"
"If it's fractions, I'll help you," Sam said.
"Hen still doesn't know how to do fractions."
"I have spelling words I have to mesmerize," Ishmael said
"Those words will never know what hit them" Sam said.

Nick Wilgus

#8. Tess, I learned somethin' early about you. You are the only woman I know who doesn't need words. Everything you do speaks for you and it never lies. Just your hand on me, babe, said it all.

Kristen Ashley

#9. More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Paula McLain

#10. One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

#11. Love you. That should have been simple enough to say. But the words stuck hard in my throat. I'd never said them to anyone I didn't lose,

Jim Butcher

#12. 38. "A wet bird never flies at night." (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)

James C. Dobson

#13. Blake . . . it's inevitable," I said, repeating the words I'd learned. "You've seen it on the horizon. You know what's coming. Paradise is always lost."
"That's a convenient turn of phrase," he said. "But paradise is never lost. Only destroyed.

Heidi Heilig

#14. I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

Zach Galifianakis

#15. I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son] ... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

J.K. Rowling

#16. I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

Ann Rinaldi

#17. Freddie's face was anxious."Mike,you sure about Moe Greene selling?He never mentioned it me and he loves the business.I really don't think that he'll sell."
Michael said quietly,"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
The words were said casually yet the effect was chilling.

Mario Puzo

#18. Sometimes I think," he told me the only time we talked somewhat seriously, "I've never looked anyone in the eye." It was an exaggeration, but I'm not sure the man was exaggerating on purpose. After all, he wasn't looking me in the eye when he said those words.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#19. There is one final point I would like to make this week. As I said on the floor of the House during deliberation of this latest supplemental, hope is something Americans should never lose. Let each of us, both by our words and actions, continue to provide that hope.

Jo Bonner

#20. When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#21. When my father-in-law, Jan Vuijst, a Dutch Reformed minister, was on his deathbed, I had a deeply intimate conversation with him - as it turned out, my last conversation with him. He said to me, 'It was a privilege to have lived.' The soulful gratitude of that simple statement will never leave me.

Daniel Klein

#22. Let me be who you need. Those words out of Sophia's mouth were everything I wanted to hear in this moment, and everything I wanted her to take back and pretend like she'd never said.

Nina Levine

#23. [Grace talking to Billy.] "It's like people who want to feel only happy but not sad," she said. "It never works. You either feel things or you don't. You don't get to pick and choose. At least, I don't think so.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#24. I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

Nigel Rees

#25. And this is what your son said,' the angel told the man. 'These are the words he said to the rabbi at that point, and they have never been forgotten: "My Lord, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof. But only speak a word and my servant will be healed.

Paulo Coelho

#26. Love, as I see it, is a series of actions. If I ever got remarried-impossible-but if I ever did and my husband never said the words "I love you," but he showed me every day that he did, I would click my heels every morning and be eternally grateful for my good fortune.

Cathy Lamb

#27. Tell me you love me," I pleaded"
"Gideon's eyes met mine. "You know I do"
"Imagine if I i ever said the words to you. If you never heard them from me"
"His chest expanded on a deep breath. "Crossfire

Sylvia Day

#28. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.

Jeaniene Frost

#29. I love you," she said softly for the first time. It shocked her to realize she had never spoken the words until now.

Kirsten Beyer

#30. There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

Don Ameche

#31. Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Lisa Kleypas

#32. A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul.
I'm dying, Landon.

Nicholas Sparks

#33. In other words, or perhaps another thing, whatever I said it was never enough and always too much. Yes,

Samuel Beckett

#34. No,'he said.'I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did ... terrible things.' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober.'I was lost. Beyond hope. Except ... Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.

Richelle Mead

#35. you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands...you make me sick...show me your bankai and I will crush it...I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees...I will never let you say those words to Rukia again...
~Ichigo Kurosaki

Tite Kubo

#36. Einstein, like myself, found Bern pleasant but boring. And so I wonder: If the Swiss were more interesting, might he never have daydreamed as much as he did? Might he never have developed the Special Theory of Relativity? In other words, is there something to be said for boredom?

Eric Weiner

#37. Because I love you." Saying the words released the pressure around her chest. She'd never said those words to a man before. Not even Sam. She'd loved

Katie Reus

#38. She told him to write a letter about what he felt for her.
He said that's impossible not because he was lazy to write but that letter would never end as he couldn't stop thinking about her even for a moment.
However, he could sum everything in three words
I LOVE YOU

Subhasis Das

#39. She studied him for a few more seconds. "You
look too pretty to be useful."
I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and
shook her hand.
"Truer words were never spoken," he said.

Richelle Mead

#40. Aden, I'm not fixed, she said, the words holding despair. You were never broken. There's nothing to fix.

Nalini Singh

#41. I've never said anything worth quoting. You can quote me on that. My characters' words are another matter.

Karen Vorbeck Williams

#42. Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you."
"I love you, too," said Luxa.
After that there was nothing left to say.

Suzanne Collins

#43. I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear.
"Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock.
Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

Norton Juster

#44. I can't forget the words you've never said.

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#45. I don't know. I just want you with me.' I had never said those words aloud. Now that I could taste my freedom I wanted him to share it with me. But he couldn't change his life for me. And I couldn't sacrifice my life to be with him.

Samantha Shannon

#46. I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

Richard Paul Evans

#47. All in all, I'd heard people do a lot of things with words. I'd heard them not say what they meant and I'd seen them not do what they said, but I'd never met a person who could speak so simply and still convey so much.

Rachel Joyce

#48. I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity.

Johnny Cash

#49. Well, anyway, when I am grown up," said Anne decidedly, "I'm always going to talk to little girls as if they were too, and I'll never laugh when they use big words. I know from sorrowful experience how that hurts one's feelings.

L.M. Montgomery

#50. I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Sharon Salzberg

#51. 'Hubba-Hubba' never slips out," Zeke said. "You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable use of the English language.

Sarah Beth Durst

#52. I swear to God, Boss," he said one day. "Ya ain't never been a talker, but lately, if ya'd a had to rub two words together to make a fire, you'd a done froze to death.

Eli Easton