soph ☆

“What does a language retain of the violence it has been used to commit?”
― Mireille Gansel, Translation as Transhumance

“Some people are curious about a writer’s “creative process.” I can’t explain mine except to say that God is the starting point and the finish line. In other words, when all else fails— and it always does— I pray.”
― Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

“He was looking for another story to tell. He goes and tells all about what he's got in his drawers. She fights it by continually creating new verbal situations.”
― Nanni Balestrini, Tristano

“I smiled, always happy to be the exception to a rule.”
― Eliza Clark