Language Quote by Maya Cross

“Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be.”

— Nina LaCour

“Words, after all, are nothing by themselves. They burst into meaning only in the minds they’ve entered.”

— Vivek Shanbhag

“I decided that it was the thoughts in your own mind that mattered more than anything else.”

— Ally Condie

“I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made…

— Jane Devin

“I was aghast by the betrayal those thoughts represented, by the callous creature they proved me to be.”

— Jean Hegland

“It was knowing someone else thought about me for more than one second, maybe thought about me when I wasn't there.”

— Sara Zarr

“Such were her thoughts, though she lacked the words to express them.”

— George Orwell

“I made myself speak without thinking. This was the only way I could sound human.”

— F.K. Preston

“I was already starting to understand that other people's admiration asked something of you. That you had to shape yourself around it.”

— Emma Cline

“You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell it out,…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“I never said to myself, I am longing; that feeling lived at a level below language.”

— Lauren Slater

“And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.”

— Helon Habila