“we swim in our second language, we breathe in our first”
“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
“Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait."Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.”
“The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.”
“We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.”
“Our mouths were fluent in the language of each other and we moved with one mind and shared the same breath.”