Rachel

“Trying, he thought, to express some unutterable truth about themselves. Which was that translation was impossible. That the realm of pure meaning they captured and manifested would and could not ever be known. That the enterprise of this tower had been impossible from inception. For how could there ever be an Adamic language? The thought now made him laugh. There was no innate, perfectly comprehensible language. There was no candidate - not English, not French - that could bully and absorb enough to become one. Language was just difference. A thousand different ways of seeing, of moving through the world. No, a thousand worlds within one. And translation, a necessary endeavor however futile, to move between them.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“In a weird way, he no longer found the share circle so annoying. Well, he still found them annoying, but it was more of a familiar, low-grade annoyance, now. Almost like they were his annoyances.”
― Cassandra Gannon, Wicked Ugly Bad

“I like to read. I cannot survive without reading.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Esmeralda?” Scarlett turned to the witch next. “Don’t you want to do magic, again?”

“Of course I do! It’s the only thing I dream of. Casting spells… Turning people into frogs… Genetically engineering my gingerbread army…”
― Cassandra Gannon, Wicked Ugly Bad