We were more than best friends and less than a couple. It didn’t matter what others called us. From beginning to end, we were just Clematis and Wist.


“Why, he wondered, did white people get so very upset when anyone disagreed with them?”
― Babel
― Babel

“How strange,’ said Ramy. ‘To love the stuff and the language, but to hate the country.’
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― Babel
‘Not as odd as you’d think,’ said Victoire. ‘There are people, after all, and then there are things.”
― Babel

“He looks every bit the handsome faerie prince, beloved by everyone and everything. Rabbits probably eat from his hands. Blue jays try to feed him worms meant for their own children.”
― The Stolen Heir
― The Stolen Heir

“Be selfish," he whispered. "Be brave.”
― Babel
― Babel

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
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