Amanda

“Old age is no place for sissies!”
― Bette Davis

“But you must remember that, should you choose to live, you do not live only for yourself.” He made a gesture as though to touch his heart. “You live for those you have lost. You carry their legacies inside you. You see, the Elantians destroyed everything that made the roots of our kingdom: our culture, our education, our families and principles. They wish to take us out on our knees, to subdue us so that we will never lift our heads again.
“But what they do not know is that, so long as we live on, we carry inside us all that they have destroyed. And that is our triumph; that is our rebellion.” Rain clung to his lashes as neither of them broke their gaze. “Do not let them win today.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night

“The words of Hannah Arendt, written to describe her own sense of statelessness and exile in the turmoil of World War Two, ring as true in the supposedly new reality of the “global village” today as the day they were written. “Contemporary history,” Arendt wrote, “has created a new kind of human being—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and internment camps by their friends.”22”
― Andrew Shepherd, The Gift of the Other: Levinas, Derrida, and a Theology of Hospitality

“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