Elena

“They were men at Oxford; they were not Oxford men. But the enormity of this knowledge was so devastating, such a vicious antithesis to the three golden days they’d blindly enjoyed, that neither of them could say it out loud.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“El pasado se queda contigo en la forma en que el azúcar en polvo se queda en tus dedos. Algunos pueden sacárselo de encima pero todavía esta allí, los eventos y las cosas que te empujaron adonde estás ahora.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“How does all the power from foreign languages just somehow accrue to England? This is no accident; this is a deliberate exploitation of foreign culture and foreign resources. The professors like to pretend that the tower is a refuge for pure knowledge, that it sits above the mundane concerns of business and commerce, but it does not. It’s intricately tied to the business of colonialism. It is the business of colonialism.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“But the future, vague as it was frightening, was easily ignored for now; it paled so against the brilliance of the present”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel