Natalia

“[Mary Lamb] Let me ask you something. If you could go anywhere on Earth, where would you go?

[Paul Hunham] (chuckling): Oh. Greece. Italy. Egypt, Peru. Carthage. Tunisia now, of course. In college, I started a monograph on Carthage. I’d like to finish that someday. (Sighs.) A monograph is like a book, only shorter.

[Mary Lamb] I know what a monograph is.

[Angus Tully] Why not just write a book?

[Paul Hunham] I’m not sure I have an entire book in me.

[Mary Lamb] You can’t even dream a whole dream, can you?”
― David Hemingson, The Holdovers Screenplay

“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“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

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus