Daniela

“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

“You are a human being. And that's and unstable condition that ends badly for all of us.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

“If I am weak for wanting you, then let me embrace that weakness and make it my strength," he said, his gaze fixed on the west. "And if you must haunt me, then let me haunt you in return.”
― Rebecca Ross, A Fire Endless

“Being young is a kind of warfare in which the great enemy is experience.”
― Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies