Quote by Leah Bardugo

“We are not speaking gibberish. We're speaking the sacred language of the Qur'an, the language of great Calipha and Saladin, the most beautiful intricate…

— John Green

“I spoke the language that had pronounced the sentences that had killed their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the world's first concentration camps”

— Bryce Courtenay

' There are some people that could hear you speak a thousand words and still not understand you. And there are others who will…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“I saw how you looked at us,” he said. “Just like every Himba I have ever encountered, like we’re savages. You call us the…

— Nnedi Okorafor

“Yes," I said. "Temudjin Oh." I'd long got used to the fact that my Mongolian-extraction surname could cause some amusement amongst English speakers determined…

— Iain M. Banks

Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. She stumbled toward me over the rocking deck, the tip of…

— Rick Riordan

“Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights and experiences.…

— R. Scott Bakker

“What were you shouting about?" asked Yvaine. "To let people know we were here," Tristrain told her. "What people?" "You never know," he told…

— Neil Gaiman

“The last of Zahhara's patients died that night. In the end it happened very quickly. About half of them had been human, the others…

— Joe Schreiber

“I think I was actually channelling my grandfather,’ she admitted. ‘He lived right out in the woods in this little cottage and he used…

— Emma Jackson

“I swear conversation is such hard work! To make myself understood, it’s like I have to speak in an unknown foreign language, every minute…

— Naoki Higashida

“Mara gave you my letter?" "Yes." "You must have been astonished." She had exposed her heart in that letter. His eyebrows shot up. "'Astonished'…

— Meljean Brook