Humour Quote by Karin Slaughter

“We both speak Dutch and English. But we never could speak the same language.”

— Gayle Forman

“My mother and I, we both speak Dutch and English. But we never could speak the same language”

— Gayle Forman

“He ignored me at first. No words other than our first terse, “Hello,” passed between us until I ordered a drink from the flight…

— Declan Rhodes

“We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say.…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Toni Morrison

“Her voice made me drunk, deep and sun-warmed, a hint of a foreign accent, Swedish singsong a generation removed.”

— Janet Fitch

“She must sense we’re annoyed because she unleashes a flurry of words that make me think at one point she’s speaking in a different…

— Alretha Thomas

“All around me I hear the pleasant chortle of Dutch. It sounds vaguely familiar, though I can't imagine why. Then it dawns on me.…

— Anonymous

“Dutch) language. I pray still more earnestly that He would,”

— Andrew Murray

“She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had…

— J.X. Burros

“And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of saying it,…

— Zibby Oneal

“In fact, she rather liked it, and found that their mutual lack of language skills freed them from the banalities of conversation.”

— Violet Kupersmith