Kennedy

“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.”
― Chloe Gong, Our Violent Ends

“But some men dream of times long dead, and times that never existed, and they're willing to tear the world apart entirely to get them.”
― Tasha Suri, The Jasmine Throne

“They would martyr me themselves to satisfy their hunger for a saint.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine