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This is a joke, right? Right?

“Oh those white people have small hearts who can only feel for themselves.”

What the fuck

“For simple ink on paper was not enough to describe this golden afternoon; the warmth of uncomplicated friendship, all fights forgotten, all sins forgiven; the sunlight melting away the memory of the classroom chill; the sticky taste of lemon on their tongues and their startled, delighted relief.”

Ahh(ᗒᗣᗕ)՞ I love her writing sm

“You’ve identified so hard with the colonizer, you think any threat to them is a threat to you. When are you going to realize you can’t be one of them?”

Oh..

This is becoming my whole personality I’m afraid

“The language of translation ought, we think, as far as possible, to be a pure, impalpable, and invisible element, the medium of thought and feeling, and nothing more. But what do we know of thought and feeling except as expressed through language?”

I’d probably kill to get a tea chat with people in this book

Reading this already feels like a dream, it’s so magical. Totally in love with the languages concept and system in this, it’s sooo fun

“A lie was not a lie if it was never uttered; questions that were never asked did not need answers. They would both remain perfectly content to linger in the liminal, endless space between truth and denial.”

I just love her writing