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“The word loss was inadequate. Loss just meant a lack, meant something was missing, but it did not encompass the totality of this severance, this terrifying un-anchoring from all that he’d ever known.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Whiteness, alone, is mute, meaningless, unfathomable, pointless, frozen, veiled, curtained, dreaded, senseless, implacable. Or so our writers seem to say.”
― Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

“Language was always the companion of empire, and as such, together they begin, grow, and flourish. And later, together, they fall.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Let’s start with a love story. Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters