Cathryn Cooper

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“Youth is wasted on the young.”
― George Bernard Shaw