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R.F. Kuang
“There are no kind masters, Letty,’ Anthony continued. ‘It doesn’t matter how lenient, how gracious, how invested in your education they make out to be. Masters are masters in the end.”
R.F. Kuang, Babel

R.F. Kuang
“This is how colonialism works. It convinces us that the fallout from resistance is entirely our fault, that the immoral choice is resistance itself rather than the circumstances that demanded it.”
R.F. Kuang, Babel

Barbara Kingsolver
“I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

R.F. Kuang
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
R.F. Kuang, Babel

Anthony Doerr
“we are all beautiful even as we are all part of the problem, and that to be a part of the problem is to be human”
Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

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