Ella

“You have such a great fear of freedom, brother. It's shackling you. You've identified so hard with the colonizer, you think any threat to them is a threat to you. When are you going to realize you can't be one of them?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“We were predictable to each other, like two halves of the same brain.”
― Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel