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“I’m bilingual, speaking English and body language. I prefer the latter, because I can speak it silently and without listening and while my back is turned.”
― Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

“The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.”
― Roger Bacon, The Opus Majus of Roger Bacon: Volume 1

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”
― Rita Mae Brown

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die -"
She put her hand against his chest, just over his heart, and felt its beat against her palm, a unique time signature that was all its own. "I only wish you would not speak of dying," she said. "But even for that, yes, I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly ones, the mad ones, the beautiful ones, and the ones that are only for me. I love them, and I love you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess