Kayla

“Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.”
― Mário Quintana

“There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.”
― Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

“A book can be pocketed and discarded, scrawled and torn into pages, lost and bought again. It can be dragged out from a suitcase, opened in front of you when having a snack, revived at the moment of waking, and skimmed through once again before falling asleep. It needs no notice by phone if you can’t attend the appointment fixed in the timetable. It won’t get mad if awakened from its slumber during your sleepless nights. Its message can be swallowed whole or chewed into tiny pieces. Its content lures you for intellectual Why and What adventures and it satisfies your spirit of adventure. You can get bored of it—but it won’t ever get bored of you.”
― Kató Lomb, Polyglot: How I Learn Languages

“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.”
― Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss