Hadley Allison on language
Hadley Allison51 quotes“Let me teach you the language of love you’ve never spoken.”
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She was always falling in love with the complexities of the human heart.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I know the way isn’t clear hold steady anyway.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison And sometimes love looks like choosing.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison Your lies were so beautiful that I miss them more than you.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison Let me show you just how bad good love can be.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I fear I am and will always be the river emptying into your sea.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I was perfect until I broke.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison You only knew the parts of me you accepted in yourself.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I am so sorry; you see, I wanted to love you, but I had to be free.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison My darling, how lonely it is to love you.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison You were a nightmare I never wanted to wake up from.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I am jealous of the wind because she gets to touch you.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I would die for you it’s true if I could only learn how to breathe around you.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison I want to catch snowflakes on your tongue.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison Formless I take shape beneath your fingertips.
Hadley AllisonHadley Allison The sadness in her eyes was more beautiful than any sunrise.
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Spanish is such an important language globally.
Kali UchisKali Uchis So what do we say to each other is the language of unspoken? The words are sweet; the space is bitter or is this just the them I’ve chosen.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair. (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)
Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton My mom was an executive at AT&T, a global account lady. I have no idea what she did. I just know she was never home and speaks several languages.
SZASZA I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama I’d come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
Jean-Paul SartreJean-Paul Sartre Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?
Mary WollstonecraftMary Wollstonecraft The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
