Vic

“The word loss was inadequate. Loss just meant a lack, meant something was missing, but it did not encompass the totality of this severance, this terrifying un-anchoring from all that he’d ever known.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“She learned revolution is, in fact, always unimaginable. It shatters the world you know. The future is unwritten, brimming with potential. The colonizers have no idea what is coming, and that makes them panic. It terrifies them.

Good. It should.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“And if I could go back in time I’d clip the chain in a heartbeat and never care a minute that the picture was never painted.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Books are meant to be touched, otherwise they’re useless.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel