Ashley

“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

“But you cannot fix someone. In the end, if they can be fixed at all, they must do the repairs themselves.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Thorns

“Because someone help me when me need it. And you should not take help if you not gon’ give it when the time comes.”
― Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick

“But it’s nice to do things the slow way. It give you time to think.”
― Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home: A GMA Book Club Pick