Madelyn

“Oliver. What is your father’s name?” “Huh? It’s Alex. Alex Chen.”
― Jesse Q. Sutanto, Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

“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

“I didn’t bring the bear spray.”
― Abby Jimenez, The Fall Risk

“My name,’ said his doppelgänger, ‘is Griffin Lovell.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel