Quote by Craig Silvey

“Flowery tongues have thorny throats.”

— Kirush Muser

“It had been like swallowing a gust of October wind.”

— Stephen King

“Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal My…

— Gwendolyn MacEwen

“She spoke in a caustic tone that would surely have burned out anyone else's tongue had they attempted it.”

— Kate Elliott

“If only our tongues where made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak.”

— Shaun Shane

“had always said a deceitful tongue was like armor made of oiled paper. It shimmered and looked pretty in the light, but once the…

— Carolyn McCray

“...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted home over…

— David Foster Wallace

“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like…

— Nicole Brossard

“I grabbed Lexi’s tousled head and kissed her hair. She smelt like John-Paul Gaultier and blood.”

— Shirley Marr

“Then I was face to face with it. Tongues fanned from its gaping, bladed mouth. Its eyes were black and weeping more black and…

— Ransom Riggs

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

— Frances Hardinge

“His words were so soft that the wind nearly destroyed them.”

— Maggie Stiefvater