Caitlin Estrada

“The places where we were born are the shape of our lives, even when we are away from them.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Humans, especially the victors who hold the pen that writes the annals of history, have a penchant for erasing as much as documenting”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel