Melissa

“So many people consider their work a daily punishment. Whereas I love my work as a translator. Translation is a journey over a sea from one shore to the other. Sometimes I think of myself as a smuggler: I cross the frontier of language with my booty of words, ideas, images, and metaphors.”
― Amara Lakhous, Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets