Language Quote by Alretha Thomas

“she likes the sound of languages other than English.”

— Ken Liu

“Once again, she speaks in another language when things get awkward.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“she can read my mind, and yet somehow she doesn’t seem to hear a word I say.”

— Hugh Howey

“It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having to ask…

— Paul Auster

“She looks like there are no words inside her at all, like language has taken a vacation from her life and left her alone.”

— Meredith Miller

“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.”

— Hannah Kent

“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.”

— John Sinclair

“She had no patience with foreign accents.”

— Anne Tyler

“Her past was finally speaking to her in a language she understood.”

— Abby Slovin

“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

— Dana Reinhardt

“It’s a funny thing, because I think that my mother and I may finally be speaking the same language. But somehow, now words don’t…

— Gayle Forman

“sometimes it is necessary for us all to pretend together that language can really mean.”

— Jill Talbot