Anahita Karthik > Anahita's Quotes

“They understand that I come with baggage and embrace it.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“Does he not know that nothing screams gay more than cuffed pants and blue hair?”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“Feb's a Swiftie, which, frankly, everyone in the world is.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“I can't remember the last time I had fun with Sudhir the way brothers and sisters do.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“Young people take and take and take.

And when the people we've taken from all our lives get snatched away from us, we realise how much we truly depended on them. How much we shouldn't have.”
― Anahita Karthik, All I Have Left

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel