From Alexander Pushkin, as quoted by Anna Aslanyan:
“Translators are stage horses of enlightenment.”
From Kalyna the Soothsayer, by Elijah Kinch Spector:
“But history doesn’t make sense—it’s just things that happen!”
From Daughters of Shandong, by Eve J. Chung:
“I saw my parents as a land animal and a sea animal chained together, forced to remain on the water’s edge—each surviving but neither thriving.”
From The Book of Perilous Dishes, by Doina Ruști:
“When you least expect it, along comes a morning like this one, a morning that stirs up your past. Memories are like moths hidden in your clothes. You live with them without seeing them, sometimes without even knowing they are there. Until one day, by chance, you touch someting.”
