Siri Hustvedt Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Body, Language, Sometimes

• Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Memories, Syntax, Coherence

• Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Loss, Feelings, Quality

  Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.6, Macmillan

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