Maria Rivera

“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“I think my mother found her mother-in-law entertaining, and in a person who entertains us, there is much we forgive.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“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