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“She could see the future and its shape was already drawn, predetermined by patterns that had been set in motion before she was born — patterns of cruelty and dehumanization and oppression and trauma that pulled her right back into the place where the Trifecta had once stood.”
― RF Kuang

“I think it's about the sea taking and taking, eating away at you slowly, the way that water, say, rots the wood of your sailboat. The last thing the sea takes from you is your life. So. I think it's about dying, slowly. The matriner's hubris isn't necessarily in his belief that he won't die, but his belief that the worst the sea can do is kill him.”
― Ava Reid

“Worse, when the emergency teams were scouring the rubble, it was discovered that there had been incredibly toxic plants growing in the Green Hall—large quantities of datura had been found to be flowering in that space. That place had practically been a nightshade garden.”
― Sarah Maria Griffin

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel