Fluency Quote by Anthony Marra

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp,…

— Liane Moriarty

“He purred the words, as if his tongue was lazy and had all the time in the world to wrap around each and every…

— Blue Kincaid

“Her mouth contorted, and the wrinkles around her lips were like the dunes of a frosted cupcake. And I just wanted to lick her…

— Jarod Kintz

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with…

— Dean Koontz

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

— Anne Ursu

“He wasn’t looking at her, was at such an oblique angle to her that his face was little more than a sliver, but she…

— Marisa de los Santos

“Alliteration. It’s when you repeat the same consonant in a phrase,” Memphis explained. “Huh. I was hoping it was something dirty.”

— Libba Bray

She got her daddy's tongue and temper... Sometimes her mouth could use a filter... God shook his head the day he built her Oh,…

— Anonymous

“There were creases at the corners of her mouth, the marks of too many words bitten back.”

— Frances Hardinge

“Wasing the where of needing,” she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Her tongue touched his, hesitant, almost shy. It was enough. Enough to bring their past, their passion, their desire, rushing back to him. He…

— Lexxie Couper