Adriana

“When I write in Italian, I think in Italian; to translate into English, I have to wake up another part of my brain. I don’t like the sensation at all. I feel alienated. As if I’d run into a boyfriend I’d tired of, someone I’d left years earlier. He no longer appeals to me.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, In Other Words: A Memoir

“As he held the steering wheel, he saw the car in front of him with its blinker on, and then the car turned and went down the exit. The blinker was like a gentle touch on Artie’s shoulder. Then it was gone.”
― Elizabeth Strout, The Things We Never Say

“But here I come back to Deleuze’s “right to say nothing,” and just because this right is denied to many people doesn’t make it any less of a right or any less important.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“What does it mean to construct digital worlds while the actual world is crumbling before our eyes?”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy