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

“I suppose memories live here and there in the body. But they're invisible, aren't they? And no matter how wonderful the memory, it vanishes if you leave it alone. If no one pays attention to it. They leave no trace, no evidence that they ever existed.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“…there is no such thing as humane colonization.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

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