Llyren

“Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Skinful of Shadows

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem

“Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.”
― David Crystal, How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

“Immortality didn’t turn you into a monster. It merely showed you what kind of monster you already were.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Raven Stratagem