Language Quote by Brandon Sanderson

“She heard it as though it were what language was made for”

— Toni Morrison

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

— Marguerite Duras

“The documents were in English—sort of—but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even…

— Francine Pascal

“The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter.…

— William Lindsay Gresham

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

— Anthony Marra

“Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“The bequest was for the contents of Edward Willing's library," she said tersely, "and did not include the paintings.Those went...elsewhere." Her already disapproving expression…

— Melissa Jensen

“She is in search of a language that is tactile, palatial, and self-immolating—a language that will correspond to her latent desire to disintegrate and…

— Jackie Wang

“Again, the troubling gap between word and meaning. My feeble language skills could not bear the weight of such a laden experience.”

— Alison Bechdel

“She'd taken the harlot century she'd been born into for granted, knowing no other, but now-seeing it with his eyes, hearing it with his…

— Clive Barker

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

— Abby Slovin

“While the clerks chatted in a language I could not understand, I hesitated, yearning to take everything home but unable to choose.”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen