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“Because I want to know! Sometimes, you can use what you know, but that's not what counts most. I want to know everything there is to know. Not because it's any use, but for the pleasure of knowing, and now I demand that you teach me everything you know, even if I will never be able to use it.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“In the name of stability and security, they condemn only the violence that challenges the status quo, never the violence that perpetuates it.”
― Heavenly Tyrant
― Heavenly Tyrant
“Why does Charlotte stay? That is like asking—why stay inside a house on fire? Easy to say when you are standing on the street, a safe distance from the flames. Harder when you are still inside, convinced you can douse the blaze before it spreads, or rushing room to room, trying to save what you love before it burns.”
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
― Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
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Bruna’s 2025 Year in Books
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851 books
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