Cody Harrell

“I have never met an Englishman I trusted to do the right thing out of sympathy.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“What became clear was how deeply Oxford relied on silver, how without the constant labour of its translation corps, of the talent it attracted from abroad, it immediately fell apart. It revealed more than the power of translation. It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countries.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“This itself was a claim of the Stoics: that the stories and problems of humanity don’t change, but just put on new masks. The same can be said for the remedies.”
― Ward Farnsworth, The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual

“Being alive, Tattersail concluded as she approached her tent, isn’t the same as feeling good about it.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon