“War is what happens when language fails.”
“So now what? What happens when words fail us?”
“...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”
“Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.”
“To use the language of a war correspondent, which was, she knew, what Isabel Jacobs happened to be, she would have to say thay Kitty Finch was smiling at her with hostile intent.”
“What happens to our thoughts as we clothe them in language, and how faithfully are they preserved when our listeners undress them?”