A Memory Called Empire
Arkady Martine
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Released, I am a spear in the hands of the sun.”
“So much of who we are is what we remember and retell,”
“The problem with sending messages was that people responded to them, which meant one had to write more messages in reply.”
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe; it gives life back to those who no longer exist.”
“Histories are always worse by the time they get written down.”
“This book is dedicated to anyone who has ever fallen in love with a culture that was devouring their own.”
“Nothing touched by Empire stays clean.”
“Poetry is for the desperate, and for people who have grown old enough to have something to say.”
“Expansion History, and you came to the description of the triple sunrises you can see when you're hanging in Lsel Station's Lagrange point, and you thought, At last, there are words for how I feel, and they aren't even in my language―> Yes, Mahit says. Yes, she does. That ache: longing and a violent sort of self-hatred, that only made the longing sharper.We felt that way.”
“Be a mirror, she told herself again. Be a mirror when you meet a knife; be a mirror when you meet a stone.”
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Book Keywords:
email, correspondence, six-direction, literature, mahit, work, bilingualism, language
