“Anyone who speaks to members of his family knows that sharing a language does not mean you share the rules governing the use of that language.”
― Erasure
― Erasure
“All stories are ghost stories, and some stories turn us into ghosts.”
― House of Bone and Rain
― House of Bone and Rain
“The joke was everything. That they’d been thrown into evil and discovered it was a land they could master.”
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
“Language is an infinite resource. And if we learn it, if we use it – who are we stealing from?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Languages aren’t just made of words. They’re modes of looking at the world. They’re the keys to civilization. And that’s knowledge worth killing for.”
― Babel
― Babel
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