“There was an intimacy to all violence, she supposed. The better you knew someone, the more terribly you could hurt them.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
― A Study in Drowning
― A Study in Drowning
“And there is nothing more dangerous than a creature who pretends to be one thing and is in truth another.”
― Lady Macbeth
― Lady Macbeth
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― 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
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