Language Quote by Jeffrey Stepakoff

“O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Don’t you two dare say a thing,” she pointed a finger at us, straightening her skirt with the other hand. “Just bite your tongues.”…

— Micalea Smeltzer

“Gently, slowly, with no profane inflexions of voice, but irresistibly as though they had the headwaters of the Mississippi for their source, came this…

— Franklin J. Meine

“i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too…

— Colette

“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

“The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“She ponders the transmigrations from southern latitudes. the millions moving north. What happens to their languages? The warm burial grounds they leave behind? What…

— Cristina García

“Tongues were wagging. Aspersions were being cast like dandelion spores on hot gossipy winds.”

— Craig Silvey

“Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.”

— Jean Toomer

“Words left their mouths to hang frozen in midair.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Never mind what some will say, for then thou wilt never have done. One may as soon tie up the winds, as the tongues…

— Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

“The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.”

— Elizabeth Bear