Amala's

“You’ll sense the individual grains of rice coated in butter, and an aromatic fragrance as if the rice were being fried will ascend to your nose. A rich, milky sweetness will spread itself across your tongue . . .”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder

“Home is about the earth. Whether the earth open up to you. Whether it pull you so close the space between you and it melt and y’all one and it beats like your heart. Same time. Where my family lived… it’s a wall. It’s a hard floor, wood. Then concrete. No opening. No heartbeat. No air.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

“Goodbye was, incredibly, a shortened version of God be with you.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Book hoarders,” Moore explained. “Why would you hoard books in a library?” “To prove that you’ve found them,” said Moore. “To prove you know of them. To prove you have proximity to them. But reading them, that’s too much.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis