Lili

“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

“Nice comes from the Latin word for “stupid”,’ said Griffin. ‘We do not want to be nice.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“How did you survive? By having the body of a woman. What happened to you? But she already knew. “Did you know they called us public toilets?” Venka asked suddenly.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War