Children Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

“When he talked, there was a sort of mushy sound to his pronunciation that was charming because one sensed that it betrayed not so…

— Marcel Proust

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic…

— Henry Miller

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

“She writes only in pencil, as if the words might need to be revoked--borrowed words, for the most part, plucked out of other mouths...”

— Dawn Tripp

“You wouldn't think there is anything life threatening about speech impediments, but let me tell you, there is nothing more dangerous than being a…

— Sherman Alexie

“The scribe was a strict teacher and he did not accept anything less than perfect... Like a mother sensing the baby quickening within her,…

— Theresa Breslin

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

“The lessons she'd been forced to learn were dry spare things, the facts without the sense of them, given in the simplest of language,…

— Robin McKinley

“She invented her own language to say what everyone else could only feel.”

— Hannah Kent

“She associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn’t, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but…

— Joe Hill

“It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“To use strong language, she thought, was a sign of bad temper and lack of concern for others. Such people were not clever or…

— Alexander McCall Smith