julia

“What If I cut off your arm right now?
Then you'd see how fast the Institution would cast you aside.
Just like they did me."

"You wouldn't."

"No I wouldn't.
And I'm the villain.
What do you suppose that says about you?”
― N.D. Stevenson, Nimona

“Have you ever watched this kind of sunset? The colours don’t blend: the redder the sky the bluer the water, as we tilt away from the sun.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Just as we would be inestimably poorer to be denied the opportunity to see giraffes, roses, bombardier beetles, tulips, and little black house cats with white spots on their chests that sit on our laps as we write, we lose one of the true wonders of the world every time one of these glorious variations on a theme set by the first language slips away unrecorded for posterity.”
― John McWhorter, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source

“It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.”
― Linda Sue Park, When My Name Was Keoko