Beatriz Gomes

“Marzia: People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don't always like who they are.

Elio: Do you hide who you are?

Marzia: Sometimes. Don't you?

Elio: Do I? I suppose. Do you hide from me?

Marzia: No, not from you. Or maybe, yes, a bit.

Elio: Like what?

Marzia: You know exactly like what.

Elio: Why do say that?

Marzia: Why? Becaue I think you can hurt me and I don't want to be hurt.Not that you mean to hurt anyone, but because you're always changing your mind, always slipping, so no one knows where to find you. You scare me.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“To translate is never simple. To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple, or quintuple. To translate is to distance oneself from God’s truth, which, as everyone knows or believes, is single.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black