Fábio Moon > Quotes

“Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“My dreams tell me who I am.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“It takes time and a lot of looking around, but you eventually find that your home is a lot more than just the house you live in. Brás had all the time in the world to figure that out. He discovered your country can be your home, or a city, or just that particular neighborhood. Sometimes your life changes--you change--and your home moves to a different place. Brás realized that home is not a physical place at all, but a group of elements like the people you live with--a feeling, a state of mind. He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away... there is a home... waiting for him to return. It's where he can rest. Where he finds peace.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“Isn’t it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives... yet we so often forget the most important ones?”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“… that’s what friends do. They care. They find each other and stick together when things get rough. Friends are worth the effort.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“If you travel too fast, all you're gonna see is a blur and you'll never really meet anyone interesting.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“You are my home, my heart, my love. Good night.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“So, what do you do for a living?'
'Why do you ask?'
'I don't know. I just met you and I'd like to know you better. Who you are, what you want -- your dreams.'
'My job won't tell you who I am. And especially not what I want.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“We live in a society populated by strangers. Each day, we feel more distant from each other, more alone, all while being surrounding by millions. Each day we watch as our city turns into a desert, one in which we are all lost -- looking for that oasis we like to call... "love." The more we wait, the more everything--and everyone--looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind. How do we find something--or someone-- we can no longer see, but which is right there before us? And how do we hold on to what is most precious in life?”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“Even when he was awake, he would carry his dreams with him. They reminded him of who he is and what he wanted out of life. His dreams would tell him what to do, how to navigate in this world.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“It takes some time and a lot of looking around, but you eventually find that your home is a lot more than just the
house you live in.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“How do we find something or someone we can no longer see, but which is right there before us?”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“People have always believed in miracles... It's in their nature to believe things can always get better in some mysterious way. If everything else fails, higher forces will help them when the time comes. And people do that because they know the very essence of life is...that from the very beginning, at any point...everything can go wrong.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“You are on this boat floating on an endless ocean. These baskets contain wishes, desires...forces that drive your will to move forward. However, if you stay here just staring at them...sooner or later...they're all going to sink.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“I wake up and fall in love with you like that day at the bakery”
― Fabio Moon Gabriel Ba, Daytripper

“In times like these, we seek comfort in the little pleasures, things we're glad man invented. It doesn't matter where you're from -- or how you feel.. There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.”
― Fabio Moon Gabriel Ba

“When someone wants to hide…the night gives them shelter.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“There’s no understanding the power of a mother, of Zana in particular, because she was the only one who didn’t swallow the story of the English bank. When a son’s fate is at stake, no detective in the world can find more clues than a mother.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“You always have a choice — So what now,? — Well, just picture where you want to be... and read the story until the end”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“When someone dies on the other side of the world, it’s as if he’s been killed in a war or a shipwreck. Our eyes couldn’t see the dead man. There was no funeral, no ritual. Nothing. Just a telegram, a letter.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“Life is too dark without anyone to share it with.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“Then Brás woke up and realized that when you turn that corner, that future you have written and wished for is not always there waiting for you. In fact, it usually isn't at all what you expected... around the corner there is just another big annoying question mark. It's called life.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“The ghazals are convincing, and patience is a powerful weapon…but the heart of a timid man will never win his lady.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“Some of our desires are fulfilled only by others. Our nightmares belong to us”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“Omar went to the funeral, but watched from afar. So distant that his brother, who hadn’t even come, seemed closer to his father’s final departure. Yaqub ordered a wreath to be delivered, along with an epitaph. “Fond memories of my father, who even from a distance, was always present.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“The Maronite Christian women in Manaus could not tolerate the notion of Zana marrying a Muslim. A mere tinker, a peddler, a roughneck, a Muslim from the mountains of Southern Lebanon, they’d say. Ah, these passions in the provinces. It’s like being onstage, listening to the audience booing two actors playing two lovers. The more they booed, the more perfume I put on the marriage sheets. It was a greedy and vengeful kiss, I silenced those rattling tongues…and all of Abbas’s ghazals were in that kiss.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“Only you don’t change, Omar. You’re still a wreck. Look at your clothes, your hair…the hour you arrive at home. Now you have no father, you should look for a job and stop with this idle lunacy. Your father couldn’t bear looking at you like this. He couldn’t bear watching your life thrown away.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“The children had invaded Halim’s life, and he never got used to the fact. Still, they were his children and he spent time with them, told them stories. He was what you could call a father, but one who was aware that children had robbed him of a large part of his privacy and pleasure. Years later, they would rob him of serenity and good humor.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers