Life Hacks for a Little Alien Quotes

“The library is really nice and really handsome. Its dark wooden bookshelves house rows upon rows of lovely-looking books. The books are not bound in protective plastic jackets like they are in your local library. Instead, they are bound in fabric. The mere sight of them makes you want to twirl around in a marveling manner, like people do in films.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien

“If things were up to you, if you were the ruler of the world, languages would be unspoken. Instead of speaking, people would carefully consider the thoughts they want to express and then write them down. That way, there would be no misunderstandings based on unintended tonal shifts, unintended emphasis, unintended facial expressions.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien

“Linguists are language experts. They are people who know a lot about language. They are not necessarily people who know how to speak a lot of languages, or even people who know a lot about linguine, which is a type of pasta.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks For a Little Alien

“Ah, an admirable profession. But no, I'm not a librarian.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien

“It's new and uncharted territory. As a general rule, you don't mind new territory. But you tend to prefer when it's charted.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien

“Like all the books you have ever come across, you think it looks interesting.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien

“Also, you really don’t want to finish your meal now. Your meal has ceiling in it.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien

“The book doesn’t explain anything about the light spectrum. Instead, it explains how God once killed almost everyone on Planet Earth.”
― Alice Franklin, Life Hacks for a Little Alien