Taylor Rogers

“All it took was to tell a lie– and to believe, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that all rules could be suspended. You held a conclusion in your head and believed, through sheer force of will, that everything else was wrong. You had to see the world as it was not.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Maybe that was just how murder became possible. You took away someone’s humanity and then you killed them. (22)”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“Yells and howls, threaded together layer upon layer, are emmeshed to form that lump. Because of meat. I ate too much meat. The lives of the animals I ate have all lodged there. Blood and flesh, all those butchered bodies are scattered in every nook and cranny, and though the physical remnants were excreted, their lives still stick stubbornly to my insides.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“She wanted it all to have never happened. She wanted her mind back. And she wanted to be more than a body, more than mere flesh, a thing to inscribe and observe and maybe fondle when you were bored. She wanted the version she was promised...but this was all a fairy tale.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis