Laura

“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“I will tell you if you tell me which language you sing in."
"Spanish," she lied.
"No great miracle has evern been worked in Castilian."
"And why is that?"
"Because it's a language that spends its power in command and conquest.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“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

“But let it be my ambition and not my fear that seals my fate.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar