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Thatcher: "I think it's really great that J said I speak fluent Russian. He doesn't just say stuff like that."

Lara: "Yeah, sometimes you communicate better than we do."

Thatcher: "Yeah, I think you're right."

Lara: "... That's because you speak human."

Lara: "Hm, it smells like animals in here."

anonymous: "It's all the Kyrgyz."

"Where's the rice at? No, the good rice, this is the rice with rocks in it."

"I'm scared of your fridge. I never know if it's some strange experiment or food."

"So I was reading this ethnography written by this Russian guy who went to what's now Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in 1913. Apparently, in the jayloo, the women do everything, even up to herding the animals; the men sit around on a rock or sit around and sun themselves; when they get bored, they pull out their shotgun and shoot a marmot, and skin it while the women cook dinner. All they've done is brought that system down into the city."

"I've found that mayonaisse enhances the flavour of a lot of things."

"‘Surly?’ In Russian—what's the opposite of malodetz? Staridetz. ‘Surly.’"