Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange Quotes

I found that reading gave me a certain relief – one form of escapism that seemed safe, and maybe more than safe. I felt saner – less fragmented- after reading for an hour.location 3234

To create a word is simple. But to create a world – to think – that’s hard.

People become so obsessed with the future, they make it up.

Sometimes the best way out of darkness is into it.

Language also acts like love in form.

In truth, it was also by design: as much as I loved my mother, she wasn't often the person I sought for comfort in hard times. She disapproved tacitly of crying.

But maybe because I'm from a part of the country where there are more meth labs than drive-throughs, anything harder than cough syrup always makes me nervous.