Erika Cureton

“a city without a bookstore wasn't a city worth calling home.”
― Evan Friss, The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

“Do not get stuck in the comment section of life today.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You

“Instead of the White House, why not take our visiting space alien to ComicCon. We’d have legitimate concerns that nobody would notice an actual alien camouflaged among those pretending to be one. The upside? Our alien visitor phones home and instead reports—“They’re just like us!”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization

“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel