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“People shouldn’t fear their prime ministers. Prime ministers should fear their people.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Sometimes I wake up in the night and it’s there, beside me in bed, the guilt. Like a dark void waiting to suck me in.’

Atlas takes my hand. ‘Then tell it to go away,’ he whispers fiercely. He presses his lips to my ear. ‘Banish it, like a dragon banishes the dark.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“El aprendizaje de idiomas —y la traducción en particular— tiene que ver con dar voz a la gente, a especies y a países, abriéndolos al mundo. No aprender más que lenguas humanas sería encerrarnos en nosotros mismos, sería como borrar a los dragones y su historia de la faz de la Tierra.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Peace isn’t peace if it’s only given to some,” Marquis says. “And I know you know it.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Swallows were originally dragons who could speak every language in the world. But it weighed on them, being able to empathise with the stories of so many.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“that when you oppress a community for centuries you can’t exactly be surprised when it rises up against you.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Translation translates, but does not necessarily preserve.”
S.F. Williamson, A War of Wyverns
“To control languages, to control words, is to control what people know.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“—La paz no es paz si solo la disfrutan unos cuantos —dice Marquis.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“He taught me that it’s our choices - who we choose to become once we can see our mistakes clearly - that make us who we are.”
S.F. Williamson
“People shouldn't fear their prime ministers, Wyvernmire," I say slowly. "Prime ministers should fear their people.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“my mind settles on one word. Mengkhenyass.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“—Vivimos en un mundo que lo permite todo, pero que no perdona nada.
--- Capitulo 22.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“El traductor, por otra parte, es una criatura que vuela con varios pares de alas.
-- Capitulo 1.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“—Veo un futuro brillante para ti, Vivien. Pero para alcanzarlo quizá tengas que buscar en lugares inesperados.
-- Capitulo 1.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
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“You don’t know who you are without the labels other people give you.”
S.F. Williamson, A War of Wyverns
“And it’s only now, when the study of dragon tongues is being banned for the Second Class, for people like me, that I care.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Todo acto de traducción requiere sacrificio: esa es la dura verdad que me apasionó. No existe una correlación directa entre las palabras de un idioma y del otro, así que ninguna traducción puede ser por completo fiel al original. Así pues, aunque se pueda salvar la distancia entre idiomas de uno u otro modo, siempre queda un significado más profundo por manifestar, un secreto invisible para los que solo tienen un lenguaje con el que moverse por el mundo.”
S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones
“I’m saying,” Atlas says pointedly, “that when you oppress a community for centuries you can’t exactly be surprised when it rises up against you.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“—El pueblo no debería temer a sus primeros ministros, Vivien —dice—. Los primeros ministros deberían temer al pueblo.”
S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones
“Peace isn’t peace if it’s only given to some,”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Dragons’ understanding of each other, the calls they use to communicate, depend entirely on their bond.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Los idiomas son prácticos, cuantificables, traducibles... Todo lo que no es el amor.
--- Capitulo 14.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Cuando tenía doce años vi cómo se llevaban a una niña de la biblioteca pública porque era de tercera clase. La registraron y le vaciaron los bolsillos, que tenía llenos de páginas arrancadas de Cuento de Navidad, de Dickens. Me impresionó su acto de vandalismo, pero aún más su determinación de acceder a la literatura. El sistema de clases fomenta la ambición, me explicó más tarde el tío Thomas. ¿Habría deseado tan desesperadamente leer el libro esa niña si lo tuviera permitido?
--- Capitulo 5.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“—¿Qué tipo de trato podría ofrecerle una niña humana a una dragona condenada?”
S.F. Williamson, Lengua de dragones
“The many versions of echolocation we heard through the loquisonus machine weren’t different branches of one universal language, weren’t dialects. They were simply the conversion of varying levels of emotion into sound.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“She didn't push you off the roof? Oh, she did. I had to catch him like a dog catches a stick.”
S.F. Williamson
“El miedo genera odio, y ese odio puede oprimir tanto a los dragones como a los humanos.
--- Capitulo 23.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“Bilingual education must be abolished in order to rapidly curb unpatriotic influences.”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons
“So . . . this is a civil war?” I say. “With the government and the Dragon Queen on one side, and the rebels on the other?”
S.F. Williamson, A Language of Dragons

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