Lucía ✨

“I believe I am writing about my mother because it is my turn to bring her into the world.”
― Annie Ernaux, A Woman's Story

“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only to draw it to a close with a punch. 'Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, it means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, where does that leave us? How can we conclude except by acknowledging that an act of translation is always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“la ceguera también es esto, vivir en un mundo donde se ha acabado la esperanza.”
― José Saramago, Ensayo sobre la ceguera

“La vieja tiene razón cuando dice que en esta casa se nos come la rabia, pero no es porque nazcamos con algo torcido dentro. Se nos va torciendo luego, poco a poco, de apretar los dientes.”
― Layla Martínez, Carcoma