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‘For God’s sake,’ snapped Professor Lovell. ‘She was only just a woman.’
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular.”
― Babel
― Babel
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“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
“Bees see colors in the ultraviolet range that humans cannot. Some flowers have colored maps like little runways to show the bees where to land. Humans are blind to these special markings, but the bees see them. —NED BLOODWORTH’S BEEKEEPER’S JOURNAL”
― Flight Patterns
― Flight Patterns
“Until she had had children of her own she had not been able to contemplate the death of either of her parents; when the subject had arisen, in conversation or in her own imagining, she had said only: I just don't know what I'd do.”
― On Green Dolphin Street
― On Green Dolphin Street
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