“There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.”

“Even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them; because it was always for reasons which other people didn't grasp...' There are the places in memo...”

“Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina...”

“The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.”

“My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. Theres no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where its spoken, an...”

“Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.”

“The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.”

“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn it like any other, including our own. We have to learn our own language twice, f...”

“I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.”

“While she was in transit, being unattached was exhilarating, but the moment she stopped, so did the high.”

“The natural tenderness and delicacy of our constitution, added to the many dangers we are subject to from your sex, renders it almost impossible for a single lady to travel without injury to her ch...”