“May,” said Dany. That was such a slippery word, may. In any language.”

“Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue.”

“May cause drowsiness.' - the most beautiful words in the English language. Once it was 'do you have a t-shirt I can borrow?' Now it's 'may cause drowsiness.”

“Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.”

“Home," he said softly. "If there is a more beautiful word in any language, I do not know it.”

“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”