Cora Allen

“When you spend so much time close to the darkness, you start to believe you don't deserve the light.”
― Emma Berquist, Missing, Presumed Dead

“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

“I can’t tell if we have just walked into a firestorm or hell. The latter, I decide. But tonight, hell is my dominion.”
― Rebecca Danzenbaker, Soulmatch

“What on earth would we all do without one another?”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir