“Why, he wondered, did white people get so very upset when anyone disagreed with them?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Power dictates acceptability,”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“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
“Power did not lie in the tip of a pen. Power did not work against its own interests. Power could only be brought to heel by acts of defiance it could not ignore. With brute, unflinching force. With violence.”
― Babel
― Babel
“We're here to make magic with words”
― Babel
― Babel
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