Desire Quote by Jackie Wang

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

“She'd opened the front cover and fallen inside the wonderful, frightening, magical illustrations. She'd wondered what it must feel like to escape the rigid…

— Kate Morton

“Lovers have a language that can be lost--how to speak, how to touch, when to try.”

— Parke Godwin

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

— Abby Slovin

“a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt…

— Mervin Miller

“I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the…

— Amy Tan

“Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.”

— Ann Voskamp

“we can't escape the erotic vocabulary of our culture any more than we can escape language itself.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Now yet again I discover I do not have the language, the lingo, to talk to her about this, or about anything. We have…

— Sebastian Barry

“I searched for something, but I’d forgotten how to shape sounds into language. I was a Stone Age sex-mute, reduced to communicating in grunts…

— Patricia Caliskan

“Yet we wanted human feeling, gestures free from suspicion, some sympathetic if stammering articulation, half syllables of mystification, a temporary eternal.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“...when I read to her, her quietness, her peacefulness, was what I sought to hear, and it echoed in me as if in an…

— Evan Dara