“Giving people presents is such an intimate act; you’re basically telling them who you think they are,”
― Delicious!
― Delicious!
“Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember.”
― Mongrel
― Mongrel
“Speech destroys the function of love, I think-that's a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words can close those love bites. it's the other way around, that's the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them.”
― The Body
― The Body
“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
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