Amala's

“The university tells us we are special, chosen, selected, when really we are severed from our motherlands and raised within spitting distance of a class we can never truly become a part of.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

“Goodbye was, incredibly, a shortened version of God be with you.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

“Publishing picks a winner—someone attractive enough, someone cool and young and, oh, we’re all thinking it, let’s just say it, “diverse” enough—and lavishes all its money and resources on them.”
― R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

“That’s just what translation is, I think. That’s all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they’re trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution