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(Adventure works in any strand—it calls to those who care more for living than for their lives.)
“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
“I will tell you if you tell me which language you sing in."
"Spanish," she lied.
"No great miracle has evern been worked in Castilian."
"And why is that?"
"Because it's a language that spends its power in command and conquest.”
― The Familiar
"Spanish," she lied.
"No great miracle has evern been worked in Castilian."
"And why is that?"
"Because it's a language that spends its power in command and conquest.”
― The Familiar
“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“I don’t think you’ve ever felt anything that didn’t hurt you,” Julian said. “We’ve found each other, out of everyone else in the world. Does that hurt, too?”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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