"Embassytown" Quotes
In "Embassytown," human colonists struggle to communicate with an alien race whose language is inseparable from their perception of reality, leading to profound consequences when that language is disrupted.
science fiction | 345 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
There is no substitute for understanding.
Words are not only themselves. They are an attempt to reach out to others.
Language is the thing that sets us apart from animals. It is the thing that allows us to think and communicate complex thoughts.
Language is always late for its subject
Truth and justice are distant cousins but never the same person.
Words are not acts. There's a gap between them and actions.
We all know that language is the primary tool for the exercise of power.
We are a language. Language suffuses us.
The meaning of a word is only as good as the response it gets.
Language is the great gift we have, the thing that makes us more than animals.
