“Seward would inspire a cow with statesmanship if she understood our language.”
“Her past was finally speaking to her in a language she understood.”
“In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He’d speak a language everyone understood.”
“Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.”
“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”