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“The original draft made you feel dumb, alienated at times, and frustrated with the self-righteousness of it all. It stank of all the most annoying things about Athena. The new version is a universally relatable story, a story that anyone can see themselves in.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“If it grieves you,” he said, the words caressing my bones, “then I don’t think it’s absurd at all.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I don’t feel the same black, suffocating loss I did when my father died. I don’t struggle to breathe. I don’t lie awake in the mornings debating whether it’s worth crawling out of bed. I don’t resent every stranger I encounter, wondering how they can keep moving around the world as if it hasn’t stopped turning.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“I felt, as Kanye put it, harder, better, faster, and stronger. I felt like the kind of person who now listened to Kanye.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface