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“Questions are soul of science”
― Rhythm of War
― Rhythm of War

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel

“Around other people, you couldn’t keep doing the same thing. They forced you to adapt. Grow.”
― Isles of the Emberdark
― Isles of the Emberdark

“The person who finished writing it was very different from the one who started it.”
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn
― The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

“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

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