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“'Survival's not that difficult, Birdie.' Ramy's eyes were very hard. 'But you've got to maintain some dignity while you're at it.’”

No way, Robins a rat

“…’You fly no one’s flag. You’re free to seek your own harbour. And you can do so much more than treat water.’”

“Robin found it was actually quite easy to put up with any degree of social unrest, as long as one got used to looking away”

“‘… maybe someday, with time, the world will realize there was never anything wrong with someone like me loving someone like you.

‘That is a fantasy… the loveliest fairy tale I’ve ever heard in all my life…

‘Yes… but it’s ours.

‘Yes I will marry you, you romantic fool… May we write many more together.’”

“What me is there without you?”

“‘…You are everything I am not and everything I admire’”

“Shed already lost her heart. What was one more thing?”

“Perhaps Lorelei could never have Sylvia, but she could save her. That would have to be enough for this lifetime.”

“‘I can’t cut off any more pieces of myself. I’m nearly bled dry.’”

“‘No one would accept this…

‘They would have to.’”

BROOOOOO

“‘… why have you been such a menace all this time?’

‘Because you despise me! You think me beneath you. I could see it in your eyes, and I… God, I would have done anything to earn your respect, your attention. I just wanted you to look at me…

‘When you do, I… It’s terrifying. It’s exhilarating. You’re like something out of a nightmare.’”

SLYVIA OMG

“‘How can you be so smart and so… so stupid!’

‘I beg your pardon!’

‘I’m trying to tell you that I care for you, you impossible woman!… ‘Are you happy now? Surely you’ve known for years…’

‘I did not know that.’

‘But you… You must have! It was so obvious. The way you would mock me when you caught me looking at you, or… the way you…

‘How could you not know I wanted you?’”

Sylvia writes POETRY about Lorelei?!?!?! BRUHH

Omg she’s so protective of Sylvia

“Require my son to wear a dress? Well, that wouldn’t be proper at all.”

AGHHHH MRS BENNET

“… I’m so glad to know you, son. No matter what, I will always fight for you.”

AGHHH MR BENNET

“‘Oliver,… I very much want to kiss you…’

Kissing Darcy was everything.”

Alice is starting to annoy me

Alice’s belief in Grimes is annoying me

I’m liking the critique of academia

“"You should know my name is Oliver. And I'm... I'm your son." Mr. Bennet's smile grew into a full grin, spreading across his face like a plant turning its leaves to the sun. "You most certainly are," he said, and then his arms were around Oliver…
"My son," Mr. Bennet said, and Oliver nearly imploded from happiness. Son.”

I’m crying

“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.”

Periodt

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes… How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”

I’m really loving the discussion of how such mundane tasks are linked to colonialism.

I love how kuang explores Robin’s desire to be close to and accepted by whiteness (his dad, acadamia and society). The tension between him not wanting to forget who he is, but feeling like his connection to his culture is his "ticket" into a 1st world country and society (but never fully being accepted) is so intriguing.

“Babel was security. And perhaps all that was morally compromised, yes - but was it so wrong to want to survive?”

“This is what he wanted: a smooth, even path to a future with no surprises. The only obstacle, of course, was his conscience”

“Just - don’t leave me Tala” AGHHHHH

“Because you told me not to.” BROOOOOO

Take pains. Be perfect.