Deciphering Quotes

“The ways of men and women are such a puzzle. And I could barely decipher my own feelings, let along anyone else's.”
― Megan Shepherd, The Madman's Daughter

“Far in the back of her mind she was thinking. But she could not dredge up these half-formed feelings, these obscure bits of ideas, into clear, definite thoughts. . . . Her mind ticked away, singing a song she could not decipher.”
― Helen Wells, Cherry Ames, Veterans' Nurse

“Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language to be expected should be Sanskrit, or proto-Sanskrit, or derivatives of Sanskrit. Many of the rules of evolution that apply to scripts are equivalently true for languages too. Like scripts, languages too render themselves to similar evolutionary inspections, as they too carry imprints of their journey down the ages.”
― Subhajit Ganguly, Call Of The Lost Ages: A Study Of The Indus Valley Script

“Translating from #cat is easy - you just ignore everything, then you decide what you want it to have said, thought, or wanted.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“Reading then is writing, in an endless movement of giving and receiving: each reading reinscribes something of a text; each reading reconstitutes the web it tries to decipher, but by adding another web. One must read in a text not only that which is visible and present but also the nontext of the text, the parentheses, the silences.”
― Verena Andermatt Conley, Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

“We already know they used the table of elements to devise the clues. Now, the four cardinal directions each corresponds to one of the original four elements of the ancients. We've already gone through water---the waterfall, fire---the Hall of Fire, then we had to swing through the air. That only leaves the element of earth. Which corresponds to... north." She looked up from the compass to the door ahead of them.
He stared at her in admiration "You're good."
"Maybe it's just my Promethean blood.”
― Gaelen Foley, My Dangerous Duke