Obscure Side

Just found out I'm not part of a secret feminist book club. Shocked and disappointed.

not to get political but he invented cold, ambitious, smart, rich, european preppy boarding school type of bad boy with a troubled past rooting from a family reputation to uphold yet a hidden romantic and soft side once u get past his asshole exterior that he puts up to protect himself from faliure and being hurt

“Just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t mean it’s wrong.”

“Words are sounds transfused with unequal shadows that intersect, stalactites, lace, transfigured organ music.”

“Bilingualism strikes me as a kind of synesthesia. Instead of seeing colors associated with letters and words, instead of hearing melodies, what I hear with language is the play and echo of the other language. The option to say it differently, and thus to live it differently. Language is not only a means of communication or description. It’s a framework in which we process existence. Yi writes: “It is hard to feel in an adopted language, yet it is impossible in my native language.” As every bilingual person and translator knows, there are certain words—a feeling, a way of being—that is absent in one language but perfectly brought to life in another. A word that, by existing, gives permission to be. What if you need that which does not exist in your language?”