“It must be hard,” he murmured. “To bear the weight of so much affection in a life so short.”
“For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them; in all his time in Hampstead, he never tasted a dish that could be properly described as ‘seasoned’, let alone ‘spicy’.”
― 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
“Vera shrugs. “I don’t know, I make it up. Americans like it when I tell them stories about each type of tea.” Her accent becomes stronger, more exaggerated. “Oh, this tea, from Fujian Province in China, is guarded by a golden dragon that fly above the fields.” She cocks an eyebrow at him. “See? Convincing, eh?”
― Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
― Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
“My name,’ said his doppelgänger, ‘is Griffin Lovell.”
― Babel
― Babel
“By the time they’d finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other – not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them.”
― Babel
― Babel
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