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Ellen

  • Official Polls Re: Are you writing a novel?

    Mine's about a stack of kids at an awful boarding school in Britain in the 1940s. They hate it and all the teachers in it, so they decide they'll take ...

    Jul 7, 2011


That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.
— Ramy (Babel by R. F. Kuang)