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“…there is no such thing as humane colonization.”
― 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
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― Babel
― Babel
“Theirs was a bond forged from necessity, hurt, and a shared, intimate understanding of hell.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
“I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
Arianna’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Arianna’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,105 books
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20 friends
527 books
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52 friends
107 books
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1 friend
303 books
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10 friends
267 books
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3 friends
251 books
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3 friends
4 books
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2 friends
26 books
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4 friends
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