Arrival quotes

Louise Banks: Am I fired?
Colonel Weber: You're better than the last guy.
Louise Banks: That doesn't make me feel any better.

Colonel Weber, Louise Banks

Like their ship or their bodies, their written language has no forward or backward direction. Linguists call this "nonlinear orthography," which raises the question, "Is this how they think?"

Ian Donnelly

We're so bounded by time, by its order. But now I am not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings.

Louise Banks