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“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.”
― Babel
― Babel
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― Babel
― Babel
“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― Babel
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― Babel
“It's heartbreaking how much it costs to be alive when you're always dying.”
― The First to Die at the End
― The First to Die at the End
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