”To control languages, to control words, is to control what people know."

4.25 stars

People shouldn’t fear their Prime Ministers, Vivien. Prime Ministers should fear their people.

I…literally don’t even know what to say. What an amazing book. What a fucking terrible main character. What is my brain at this point?

Every act of translation requires a sacrifice.

Vivien. Holy. Shit. Talk about one of the most ignorant, cowardly, selfish characters I’ve ever read. I literally can’t even put words onto paper about how much I despised her for like 75% of the book. She is the sole reason this rating isn’t 4.5 stars.

The ending, the hope I felt, is the reason the rating is 4.25 and not 4.

I’ve never read a book where language was so important. But it is so important. Language has the power to give life, death, heal, comfort, hurt. And this book showed us all that.

But fucking Vivien.