"I knew that I was writing for an American audience and that if I sold foreign rights, they would retranslate the book to make it make sense to that language. But one thing that was really important to me was not to italicize any of the words in the languages that were in the stories, because I feel like those foreign words felt just as important and integral to the story as everything else, so I wanted it all to just exist as its own thing."

-- Molly Antopol

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“Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.”
“Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear....”
“A man leads with his mind while a woman leads with her heart.”
“O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.”

Source : Harvey Rice (1858). “Mount Vernon: And Other Poems”, p.152
“Are you living in a computer simulation?”

Source : Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic (2011). “Global Catastrophic Risks”, p.141, Oxford University Press
“orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.”

Source : Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.308, Broadview Press
“But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.”

Source : "Rep. Polis gets crusty about pizza"by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 15, 2012.
“What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.”

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