Rina Yagi

“That's the beauty of learning a new language. It should feel like an enormous undertaking. It ought to intimidate you. It makes you appreciate the complexity of the ones you know already.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel by Sabahattin Ali

“There is nothing in the world more difficult to refuse than self-righteous goodwill.”
― Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Taiwan Travelogue

“Yet in a city of milions I had only spoken to a handful of people and only really come to know one.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat