Rina Yagi

“But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat: A Novel by Sabahattin Ali

“nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat

“There is nothing in the world more difficult to refuse than self-righteous goodwill.”
― Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Taiwan Travelogue

“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