Language Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. Words were not things you could control.…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt like something…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“The mouth tastes food, the heart tastes words.”

— Hmong Proverb

“She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them.”

— Betty Smith

“I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.”

— Sally Gardner

“...I tasted - perhaps for the first time - the true sweetness of possibility.”

— Saundra Mitchell

“When I liked something I tasted it hesitantly, furtively, as though it were extremely bitter.”

— Osamu Dazai

“And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on…

— Markus Zusak

“Those words tasted bitter. But the worst part was that those words were living inside me. And they were leaking out of me. Words…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself.…

— Sol Luckman

“so word for word/My master spoke, and I asked him for the food/To fill the appetite these words inspired.”

— Dante Alighieri

“The candy melted smoothly and easily on my tongue. I had no idea anything in the world could taste like that. I thought i…

— Kyung-sook Shin