Kennedy

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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

“We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
― Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

“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