Michaela Roby

“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

“Sometimes beautiful things get messy. Mess is okay.”
― Bolu Babalola, Honey & Spice

“I’m telling you upfront. I need more. I need you over and over. So this is your out. Take it. Otherwise you’re mine, the way it should have been”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife

“And I knew, with all my heart and soul, that I’d loved him, and he’d been good and wicked, and in the dark, secret part of me, we were so much the same.”
― Ashley Winstead, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife