“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.”
― Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
― Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
Ask Ally Condie - Tuesday, March 12th!
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