Tiffany

“Language, as much as land, is a place. To be cut off from it is to be, in a sense, homeless.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language

“Nothing is permanent. The waves, the light, are in constant transformation. Each wave is new.”
― Ram Dass, Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying

“Women who dance with their eyes closed, smiling, are as near to heaven as you can get on earth, and there I was, in heaven, only in Bakersfield.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“Supporters of U.S. English argued that foreign languages are like flotation devices, preventing immigrants from entering American waters unassisted. In reality, they buoy not only the prospects of their speakers—scientists have found that bilinguals enjoy a number of advantages, among them enhanced cognitive skills and lower rates of dementia—but also the ideals of the nation.”
― Lauren Collins, When in French: Love in a Second Language