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That’s how I learned that tsecwínucw-k is a morning greeting, kind of like “good morning” in Secwepemctsín. Except it doesn’t mean “good morning.” That’s “le7 te secwenwen.” Instead, “tsecwínucw-k” means “you survived the night.” I often
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“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“It might seem odd that in cities teetering at the edge of the abyss young people still go to class—in this case an evening class on corporate identity and product branding—but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“We are all migrants through time.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“She recognized it at once: love, one-way deep adoration that bounced off and did not bounce back; careful, quiet love that didn't care and went on anyway.”
― Everything I Never Told You
― Everything I Never Told You
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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