Cindy

“What an anchor she was, he thought, an anchor he did not deserve. She was his rock, his light, the sole presence that has kept him going. And he wished, he wished that was enough for him to hold on to.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Never had either of them paused to consider how deeply alone Victorie had to have felt, all this time.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“I Will Rise One Day

I will rise one day and speak it
I, the Kurd, will rise one day
and speak it
I, the Amazigh, your voice
will rise one day
I, the Arab you know
will rise one day
and speak it:
They've gone now, Saladin”
― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

“The university ripped us from our homes and made us believe that our futures could only consist of serving the Crown...The university tells us we are special, chosen, selected, when really we are severed from our motherlands and raised with spitting distance of a class we can never truly become part of.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel