What’s the difference between a cat and a comma?

bitsfromjoe:

One has claws at the end of its paws and one is a pause at the end of a clause.

“Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others’ lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.” —

Helen Keller (1880–1968) 

From the first chapter of her autobiography The Story of My Life, ©1905.

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” — Edgar Allan Poe. (via pablets)

“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” — Neil Gaiman, M Is for Magic (via literas)

grammarlyblog:

Yes. 

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.” — Joan Didion