“Language buries, but does not resurrect.”

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”

“Writing does not resurrect,it buries.”

“Writing does not resurrect. It buries.”

“Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.”

“This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.”

“She spoke to him in a language that, no matter how hard you studied it, could not be completely understood.”