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“There are countries out there where people speak English. But not like us - we have our own languages hidden in our carry-on luggage, in our cosmetics bags, only ever using English when we travel, and then only in foreign countries, to foreign people. It's hard to imagine, but English is the real language! Oftentimes their only language. They don't have anything to fall back on or to turn to in moments of doubt. How lost they must feel in the world, where all instructions, all the lurics of all the stupidest possible songs, all the menus, all the excruciating pamphlets and brochures - even the buttons in the lift! - are in their private language. They may be understood by anuone at any moment, whenever they open their mouths. They must have to write things down in special codes. Wherever they are, people have unlimited access to them - they are accessible to everyone and everything! I heard there are plans in the works to get them some little language of their own, one of those dead ones no one else is using anyway, just so that for once they can have something just for them.”
― Flights
― Flights
“In the morning, I told the woman messaging me on the dating site that I couldn't talk to her just yet; I was sweeping the bones of a girl I had loved off the kitchen floor.”
― Salt Slow
― Salt Slow
“Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“the true subject of science fiction is death, not life. It will all end. The totality of it.”
― Super Sad True Love Story
― Super Sad True Love Story
“To look out and see not another soul between you and the horizon could be a strange and disturbing sight.”
― The Dry
― The Dry
Paulina’s 2025 Year in Books
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