The Body- Stephen King

"Even if I'd known the right thing to say, I probably couldn't have said it.  Speech destroys the functions of love, I think--that's a hell of a thing to say for a writer to say, I guess but I believe it to be true.  If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm.  Love isn't what these asshole poets like McKuen want you think it is.  Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close.  No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites.  It's the other way around, that's the joke.  If those wounds dry up, the words die with them."-Gordie Lachance