“I'd been given a foreign text to decipher, but I couldn't even identify the language, much less the meaning behind the words; she was speaking in some code (229)” MotherGriefMemoirGrief And LossFamily RelationshipsGrief QuotesTranslationGrief And Loss QuotesFamily ConflictTranslation Quotes Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“Words had a purpose. Language had a purpose; I’d wrongly assumed that my mother wouldn’t misuse it (229)” MotherGriefMemoirGrief And LossFamily RelationshipsGrief QuotesTranslationGrief And Loss QuotesFamily ConflictTranslation Quotes Book:Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery