Yatin Arora

“Good jobs were vanishingly rare in academia. Alice very much wanted one. She wouldn't know what to do with herself otherwise. She had trained her entire life to do this one thing, and if she could not do it, then she had no reason to live.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“I feel sometimes it is so difficult to be conscious.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“I was very deliberate in my choice to not use italics for the Kannada, Urdu and Arabic words that remain untranslated in English. Italics serve to not only distract visually, but more importantly, they announce words as imported from another language, exoticising them and keeping them alien to English. By not italicising them, I hope the reader can come to these words without interference, and in the process of reading with the flow, perhaps even learn a new word or two in another language. Same goes for footnotes - there are none.

Against Italics: Translator's Notes”
― Deepa Bhasthi, Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

“I truly believe that if I’d been softer, more obedient, more willing to play it safe, I wouldn’t have started working. The impulsiveness that once got me into trouble had also been my saving grace. The younger self I once saw as a walking disaster was really just a kid doing whatever it took to survive. The same fire that once burned me could now be the thing that fueled me.

I just had to trust that it wouldn’t consume me first.”
― Lukas Gage, I Wrote This for Attention