The Inferior Quotes

“Changing words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species.”
― Peadar Ó Guilín, The Inferior

“His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject.”
― Peadar Ó Guilín, The Inferior

“She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.”
― Peadar Ó Guilín, The Inferior