Bernie Rodrique

“Her fingers itched at the thought of a notebook, of a pen flying over the pages, of her thoughts, finally free to move, flowing out.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy

“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.”
― Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things

“[...] Quando riprese fiato, disse: Per tutta la vita sono stato trattato come un mulo. L'unica cosa che desidero è che uno dei miei figli, almeno uno, viva come un uomo.
Cosa significasse vivere come un uomo era un mistero.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

“Translation is not a matter of words only; it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.”
― Anthony Burgess