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“Escrever é renunciar — eu não sei renunciar. Gide disse que o diabo desta vida é que entre cem caminhos, temos de escolher apenas um e viver com a nostalgia dos outros noventa e nove. Pois bem: a literatura é como se você tivesse de renunciar a todos os cem...”
― Fernando Sabino

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“O, brave new world
that has such people in't!”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“I suppose I think that having a child is simply the most ordinary thing I can imagine doing. And I want that- to prove that the most ordinary thing about human beings is not violence or greed but love and care. To prove it to whom, I wonder. Myself, maybe.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger