She was pregnant, of course: pregnant women carried out all the Tribe's sacred rituals.
Peadar Ó GuilínTags: pregnancy pregnant-women rites
Stupid men, always thinking they're the ones who get to do the rescuing.
Peadar Ó GuilínChanging words isn't so hard. Recognizing a particular sound, swapping it for another - that was easy even for your ancestors. Reading what happens in your head and the heads of all the beings around you, now that is difficult. Finding equivalents in one culture for the basic concepts of another - that is really difficult. I say the word vegetable and the translator tells you something like 'edible moss'. So, yes, it's a miracle, but it's a dangerous miracle. It makes you think you understand beasts and you never do. When it comes down to it, you can't even understand your own species.
Peadar Ó GuilínTags: interpretation translations interpreting lost-in-translation
His stutter didn't like the idea of wooing and silenced any attempts to broach the subject.
Peadar Ó GuilínTags: courtship stutter stuttering
There were the talking squiggles he'd seen in the crashed Globe too - writing, it was called - and it covered every surface, as if in this mass of people a man could be so lonely as to want to speak to the buildings.
Peadar Ó GuilínTags: literacy graffiti philology
She has suffered enough horror to realize how fragile happiness is, how eager the universe is to take it away.
Peadar Ó GuilínTags: happiness unfortunate
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