“I act as the tongue of you,
… tied in your mouth…. in mine it begins to be loosened.”
Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist
“A nervous silence loosens tongues”
— Jacqueline Carey, book Kushiel's Chosen
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