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"Its not bad but i dont see how it got such high goodreads rating. Mc pisses me off and female characters aren’t fleshed out as much as id like" — Apr 04, 2026 03:32AM
"Its not bad but i dont see how it got such high goodreads rating. Mc pisses me off and female characters aren’t fleshed out as much as id like" — Apr 04, 2026 03:32AM
“She learned revolution is, in fact, always unimaginable. It shatters the world you know. The future is unwritten, brimming with potential. The colonizers have no idea what is coming, and that makes them panic. It terrifies them.
Good. It should.”
― Babel
Good. It should.”
― Babel
“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
“So, you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as the rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the authors ideology and biases.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel
“The actionable items were intangible (no, Belen said repeatedly, actually it was very simple, all you had to do was hold corporations responsible for their emissions, but for whatever reason her voice seemed to get drowned out by something, usually heartwarming ads where oil was being cleaned off of ducks with Very Effective dish soap). And also, they noted with importance, where were they supposed to get the money? Belen said wealth tax, and the wealthy said hm sorry what?”
― The Atlas Paradox
― The Atlas Paradox
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