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![薬屋のひとりごと [Kusuriya no Hitorigoto] by Natsu Hyuuga](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515436331l/37856724._SX50_.jpg "薬屋のひとりごと [Kusuriya no Hitorigoto] by Natsu Hyuuga")
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“So you’re not dying, sweetheart, your body is just shedding your uterine lining.” Rin’s jaw had been hanging open for a solid minute. “What the fuck?”
Omsim, Rin.
“And everything about this moment is so lovely and so fragile in its loveliness that I’m almost afraid to hold it. Afraid that the spell will break.”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun
“That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Every time you come up against something difficult, you just want to make it go away, and you think the way to do that is self-flagellation. You’re obsessed with punishment. But that’s not how this works, Birdie. You going to prison fixes nothing. You hanging from the gallows fixes nothing. The world’s still broken. A war’s still coming. The only way to properly make amends is to stop it, which you don’t want to do, because really what this is about is your being afraid.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Still, something did not seem right, and Robin could tell from Victoire’s and Ramy’s faces that they thought so too. It took him a moment to realize what it was that grated on him, and when he did, it would bother him constantly, now and thereafter; it would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.”
― Babel
― Babel
“It’s so odd,’ Robin said. Back then they’d already passed the point of honesty; they spoke to one another unfiltered, unafraid of the consequences. ‘It’s like I’ve known you forever.’
‘Me too,’ Ramy said.
‘And that makes no sense,’ said Robin, drunk already, though there was no alcohol in the cordial. ‘Because I’ve known you for less than a day, and yet . . .’
‘I think,’ said Ramy, ‘it’s because when I speak, you listen.’
‘Because you’re fascinating.”
― Babel
‘Me too,’ Ramy said.
‘And that makes no sense,’ said Robin, drunk already, though there was no alcohol in the cordial. ‘Because I’ve known you for less than a day, and yet . . .’
‘I think,’ said Ramy, ‘it’s because when I speak, you listen.’
‘Because you’re fascinating.”
― Babel
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