Zumbini Quotes & Sayings

It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another. In — Ayana Mathis

I had that trapped feeling, like some sort of a poor insect that you've put inside a downturned glass, and it tries to climb up the sides, and it can't, and it can't, and it can't. — Cornell Woolrich

We change into our bathing suits, both of us pale like larvae, and then we walk down to the water. — Melissa Bank

So much of translating, Gil once told me, takes place in an imaginary space where the writer and the translator come together. It is not necessary to sympathize with the writer, to agree with what he's written. But it is necessary to walk alongside and stay in step. It's harder, he says, when the other person has a bad limp or stops and starts all the time or moves erratically. It is hardest of all when the story comes from a place the translator himself can't go. — Meg Rosoff

I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice. — Anne Robinson