Language Quote by Jenny Offill

“You see how the words work? They betray your mouth and walk away.”

— Ned Vizzini

“Has that been your leg all this while?” “What?” He unhooks his foot from around my calf. “I thought it was the chair. Sorry…

— Mackenzi Lee

“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When…

— Saul Bellow

“What are words if you really don't mean them when you say them?”

— Chris Medina

“All these stupid old people. Had every last one of them met, heard of, gossiped about, or smelled her mom in the distance? Way…

— Thea Harrison

“I have a way with words, & they have a way of lingering...”

— Anonymous

“How could this happen? some of our parents asked us near the end. We knew what they were really asking, and some of us…

— David Levithan

“What sense the universe had made to them had disappeared with my words, and they were unsure of how to fit what they’d heard…

— Ann Leckie

“Once you walked away, you had to keep walking and never look back.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to…

— James Patterson

“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.”

— Frances Hardinge

“I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes…

— Adam Rapp