"Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt."

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I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.

— Jodi Picoult