Llyren

“But then again, the dead are often easier to praise than the living.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Skinful of Shadows

“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

“Trust was like mould. It accumulated over time in unattended places... Over the years, Makepeace had become encrusted with other people's inattentive trust.”
― Frances Hardinge, A Skinful of Shadows

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