“In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He’d speak a language everyone understood.”
“Everyone, he went on, speaks a language he does not understand, but which now and then is understood by others. That is enough to permit one to exist and at least to be misunderstood.”
“They were speaking the language of Heaven”
“Her past was finally speaking to her in a language she understood.”
“Luca saw her bloodstained hands as the clerk bound them with a rope, and Luca realized that she was a thing of horror, a beautiful thing of horror, the worst thing between heaven and hell: a fallen angel.”
“If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.”