Elle

“Life doesn't care how young you are. It forces you to grow up anyway.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“It's heartbreaking how much it costs to be alive when you're always dying.”
― Adam Silvera, The First to Die at the End

“Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel