“You’re just like that stinky father of yours. You both let me down when I need you,”
“Why, he wondered, did white people get so very upset when anyone disagreed with them?”
― Babel
― Babel
“There are no kind masters, Letty,’ Anthony continued. ‘It doesn’t matter how lenient, how gracious, how invested in your education they make out to be. Masters are masters in the end.”
― Babel
― Babel
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
“We're here to make magic with words”
― Babel
― Babel
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
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