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“They could no longer look at the world and not see stories, histories, layered everywhere like centuries’ worth of sediment.”

“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?”

“I am yours and I have been since the day we were bound, and even before that. I don’t care for the name, or the title, or even for the power. I care for you.”

“That was the problem with feeling someone else’s emotions, even someone as close to her as Kier: there was not always a direct translation from his heart to hers.”

“‘You will make mistakes,’ I murmured. ‘And I will love you anyway.’”