Kae

“This body holds the body. This arm holds the spear. And the spear cuts through water.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“Hadn't He himself said it would be easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven?”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“One thing united them all, without Babel they had nowhere in this country to go. They had been chosen for privileges they couldn't have ever imagined, funded by powerful and wealthy men whose motives they didn't understand and they were acutely aware these could be lost at any moment. That precariousness made them simultaneously bold and terrified. They had the keys to the kingdom. They did not want to give them back.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“If on listened, one could hear it in their voices. One can tell a lot, even in such a state, by the way someone speaks another's name.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water