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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Ando me repetindo? Não sou eu, tchê. É o mundo.”
― Martha Medeiros, Doidas e santas

“Quantos metros precisamos percorrer, quantos dias devemos esperar, em que momento da nossa vida irá se realizar o nosso maior sonho e, uma vez realizado, teremos sensibilidade para identificá-lo? O nosso desejo mais secreto quase sempre é secreto até para nós mesmos.”
― Martha Medeiros, Doidas e santas

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“My dear, I don't give a damn.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que eu digo.”
― Clarice Lispector

“As reflexões deviam ser reservadas para as horas solitárias; sempre que podia, entregava-se a elas com alívio; e não se passava um dia sem uma de suas caminhadas, nas quais podia se entregar ao prazer das lembranças desagradáveis.”
― Jane Austen

“Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
― Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.”
― Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I am afraid of getting older. I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free. (...) I want, I think, to be omniscient… I think I would like to call myself "The girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body, where would I be—perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it. I am I—I am powerful—but to what extent? I am I.”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Mas a saudade é isto mesmo; é o passar e repassar das memórias antigas”
― Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro

“…disse-lhe que era preciso ter paciência, que os desgostos eram a parte principal da vida; os prazeres eram a exceção…”
― Machado de Assis, Casa Velha

“Enemies are so stimulating.”
― Katharine Hepburn