Extraits

The university ripped us from our homes and made us believe our futures could only consist of serving the Crown,' said Robin.

'The university tells us we are special, chosen, selected, when really we are severed from our motherlands and raised within spitting distance of a class we can never truly become a part of. The university turned us against our own and made us believe our only options were complicity or the streets. That was no favour, Sterling. It was cruelty. Don't ask me to love my master.

Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.

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.

C'est la grande contradiction du colonialisme... Il est conçu pour détruire ce qui a le plus de prix pour lui.

Ramy fut moins subtil. "Pourquoi êtes-vous des filles ?"

La Blanche lui lança un regard de mépris si brûlant que Robin eut mal pour lui.

"Eh bien, fit-elle d'une voix traînante, on a dû décider de devenir des filles parce que, pour être des garçons, il aurait fallu renoncer à la moitié de nos cellules cérébrales."

En un mot, j'étais trop lâche pour faire ce que je savais être bien, comme j'avais été trop lâche pour éviter ce que je savais être mal.

« 𝙇𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙙𝙚𝙥𝙪𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙨 𝙞𝙢𝙢é𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙪𝙭, 𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙪𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙭. 𝙇𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙡𝙖𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙙 à 𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙡𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚, 𝙡𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙚𝙩 𝙡𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙤𝙥é𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙥𝙚𝙪𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙦𝙪𝙞 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩 à 𝙩𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚 𝙚𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙥é𝙧𝙞𝙩é. »

We capture what is lost in translation — for there is always something lost in translation [...]

That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands

"Violence shows them how much we’re willing to give up,’ said Griffin. ‘Violence is the only language they understand, because their system of extraction is inherently violent. Violence shocks the system. And the system cannot survive the shock. You have no idea what you’re capable of, truly. You can’t imagine how the world might shift unless you pull the trigger.