“This pain you feel . . . you might believe that you will never recover. And while it might always hurt, the pain will fade a little more each time—until one day, there will be no more tears. Just the memories and the hope, that you might find some joy in them again.”
― Heart of the Sun Warrior
― Heart of the Sun Warrior
“I don’t have the money to buy you all the flowers you deserve yet,” he said, sounding so solemn and formal I couldn’t help but smile at the contrast between his tone and the jar of colorful paper flowers in his hands. “So I made them instead.”
― King of Greed
― King of Greed
“Wait for me," he says, "where the land meets the sea.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
“I broke her heart once, and I’d let her break my heart a thousand times in return if it meant that one day she found her way back to me.”
― King of Greed
― King of Greed
“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?”
― Babel
― Babel
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