Language Quote by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.”

— 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

“Words were not things you could control. Not always.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“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

“Words were not just words, describing things a person could see. Even if most did not. Maybe they had to know a thing first,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.”

— Rebecca James

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

— Hmong Proverb

“There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words.”

— Amy King

“Words were the most powerful tool. Simple and so often underestimated. They could heal. They could destroy. And I needed to use my words…

— Jennifer Armentrout

“Words are just noises we make to describe stuff.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Sometimes words were cheap. They could be powerful, but in those rare occasions like now, words meant nothing.”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout