Chiara

“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Tu fatti solo una domanda: si può risolvere con due o più bomboni?”
― Zerocalcare, La scuola di pizze in faccia del professor Calcare

“Credo di essere più bravo ad abbandonarle le cose che a rubarle.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I would welcome death, if it wasn’t for my promise to Lenore Dove that I would somehow keep the sun from rising on the reaping.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping