Damian Mee

“As a writer, I want to express my respect for the author. As fairy tales, these are very good.”
― Liu Cixin, Death's End

“Similarly, unless you heard them spoken, you might not instantly recognize ajskrym, muving pikceris, and peda as the Polish for ice cream,”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way

“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness. Sovereignly indifferent to our feelings, it is deaf to our lamentations. It is for us to endeavour to live with science, since nothing can bring back the illusions it has destroyed.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Indeed, as he increasingly masters his native tongue, he tries to make it conform to more logical rules than the language itself may possess, saying “buyed,” “eated,” and “goed” because, even though he has never heard such words spoken, they seem more logical to him—as indeed they are, if you stopped and thinked about it.”
― Bill Bryson, The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way