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passing through a magical door was a rite of passage—the black-and-white partition where one’s old life ends, and a newer, stranger one begins.
“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
“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
“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
“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
― San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― Babel
― Babel
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