Cora Allen

“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

“When you feel everything, sometimes it's better to feel nothing at all.”
― Emma Berquist, Missing, Presumed Dead

“It’s much easier to tell yourself you’re a good person than it is to actually be one.”
― M.L. Wang, Blood Over Bright Haven

“What on earth would we all do without one another?”
― Kelly Bishop, The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir