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Babel
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‘Languages are easier to forget than you imagine,’ he said. ‘Once you stop living in the world of Chinese, you stop thinking in Chinese.’
“An astronomer. I never thought I’d say this, but we need one.”
― A Day of Fallen Night
― A Day of Fallen Night
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
“For this scribe has read a great many of these accounts and taken away another lesson: that to be a woman is to have your story misremembered. Discarded. Twisted.”
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
― The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi
“Either we choose to stay alive, or we give up. And if it's living we choose, then we do whatever it takes.”
― The Wolf Den
― The Wolf Den
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