Robert Burchfield Quotes | The English language is rather like a monster...

"The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib."

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Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear the notes.

— Markus Zusak

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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

— Markus Zusak

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