Mindy

“But stared, with unmistakable violence, at people who spoke strange tongues. Stay away from them—they love their homeland so much they’ll take that love out on refugees.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)

“Still, something did not seem right, and Robin could tell from Victoire’s and Ramy’s faces that they thought so too. It took him a moment to realize what it was that grated on him, and when he did, it would bother him constantly, now and thereafter; it would seem a great paradox, the fact that after everything they had told Letty, all the pain they had shared, she was the one who needed comfort.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Robin cast them an amazed look. "Are you telling me this country's going to fall because of academic territoriality?"

"Well, yes," Professor Craft lifted her teacup to her lips. "It's Oxford, what did you expect?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Even those on the left talk about how immigrants make America great. They point to photographs of happy refugees turned good citizens, listing their contributions, as if that is the price of existing in the same country, on the same earth.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen (Editor)