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“There's a Chinese idiom that catches the gist," said Robin. "Tùsĭhúbēi. The rabbit dies, and the fox grieves, for they're animals of a kind."
"Preciously," said Anthony. "Only we've got to convince them we're not their prey. That there's a hunter in the forest, and we're all in danger.”
― Babel
"Preciously," said Anthony. "Only we've got to convince them we're not their prey. That there's a hunter in the forest, and we're all in danger.”
― Babel
“They think I'm dead. They think you're a murderer. Those are very different things. No one's printing my face in the papers.”
― Babel
― Babel
“The word 'strike', in relation to labour, originally had the connotation of submission. Ships would drop, or strike, their sails when surrendering to enemy forces or saluting their superiors. But when sailors in 1768 struck their sails in protest to demand better wages, they turned 'strike' from an act of submission to a strategic act of violence; by withholding their labour, they proved they were in fact indispensable.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Do you think I'm evil?"
"Don't be ridiculous."
"You've been saying that a lot."
"You've been ridiculous a lot. But you're not evil.”
― Babel
"Don't be ridiculous."
"You've been saying that a lot."
"You've been ridiculous a lot. But you're not evil.”
― Babel
“How could they tell her she was being delusional? That it was insane to imagine that the British legal system was truly neutral, that they would receive a fair trial, that people who looked like Robin, Ramy, and Victoire might kill a white Oxford professor, throw his body overboard, lie about it for weeks, and then walk away unscathed? That the fact that she clearly believed in all this was only evidence of the starkly different worlds they lived in?”
― Babel
― Babel
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