Emma Warrington

“Why wouldn’t you tell someone you loved them? Once you loved someone, you repeated it until they were tired of hearing it. You said it until it ceased to have meaning. Why not? Of course, you goddamn did.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.”
― Antonio de Nebrija, Gramatica de la lengua castellana (Salamanca, 1492): Muestra de la istoria de las antiguedades de España, Reglas de orthographia en la lengua castellana

“It isn’t a sadness, but a joy, that we don’t do the same things for the length of our lives.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow