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“That’s true. What if I told you I owned every casino, backstreet dealing, and bookie in the city?” he questions, blocking the door, his arm outstretched.
“Then I would tell you that you have a gambling problem.”
“Or maybe I just like to win,” he murmurs”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“I thought today was your day off?” I murmur, my voice rough with sleep.
He blinks and looks over at me. “Darling, Vipers never take a day off—too many people to kill, too much money to earn.”
― K.A. Knight, Den of Vipers

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“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