Translated Fiction Quotes

“I'd never known a love before that could blot out the world around like this.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Premonition

“A mysterious, ineffable charm had already bound them. An inherent magic is the only thing that could transform love at first sight into such hungry passion.”
― Emmanuel Bodin, Under the summer sun

“All dreams have to come to an end.”
― Timothée de Fombelle

“But what is frightening is not the thought of the unknown: it is the thought that there may not be an unknown, only an end.”
― Susana Moreira Marques, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

“Gradually I got used to my new life, to my mother's good and bad moments, and stays with my grandparents that were marked by sad farewells. I was Gradually I got used to my new life, to my mother's good and bad moments, and stays with my grandparents that were marked by sad farewells. I was still young, but I sensed that on the inside I was growing up. I was responsible for my mother. No one knew her light and dark sides better than I did. No one else stood ready to catch the next moment when she would want to leave her life behind.”
― Nora Ikstena

“Gradually I got used to my new life, to my mother's good and bad moments, and stays with my grandparents that were marked by sad farewells. I was still young, but I sensed that on the inside I was growing up. I was responsible for my mother. No one knew her light and dark sides better than I did. No one else stood ready to catch the next moment when she would want to leave her life behind.”
― Nora Ikstena

“When our legs stop working, we will walk through our memories. When our legs stop working and our eyes stop seeing, we will walk through our memories and they will be clear. When our legs stop working, our eyes stop seeing and our ears stop hearing, we will walk through our memories and they will be clear, and forgotten voices will recount everything once more.”
― Susana Moreira Marques, Now and at the Hour of Our Death

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― Núria Añó