mimansha

“Have power on this dark land to lighten it, and power on this dead world to make it live.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ninth House

“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

“You can’t do this for me,” he said. “I won’t let you.”
“It’s not for you. It’s not a favor. It’s the cruelest thing I could do.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“It’s easy to be brave. Harder to know when not to fight.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Poppy War