“She is written in a foreign tongue.”

“She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.”

“Melancholy persons are foreigners in their mother tongue. The dead language they speak foreshadows their suicide.”

“The only French I know is a kiss. I studied a lot of that foreign tongue in high school.”

“Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.”

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”