Romance Languages Quotes

“I needed words, lots of words to think about while I was going about the rest of the day. And I didn't want anything affected. I wanted nothing to do with those Romance languages. I wanted clipped words, full of common sense. Thoughts to wear beneath my thoughts. Allow, express, oath, vow, dismay, matter, splash, mollify. I liked those words. I liked saying them. I still do.”
― Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox

“Even at its most spontaneous, [the Carmina] has not the sudden miracle of the earliest vernacular ... It is the contrast between the thrushes in February and the violin.”
― Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages