Tom Scott > Tom's Quotes

“Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.”
― Mia Couto

“Every morning the gazelle wakes up knowing she must run faster than the lion or will be dead. Every morning the lion wakes up knowing he must run faster than the gazelle or he'll starve. It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle: when the sun rises you better start to run.”
― Mia Couto, A Confissão da Leoa

“A saudade é uma tatuagem na alma: só nos livramos dela perdendo um pedaço de nós.”
― Mia Couto, O Outro Pé da Sereia

“Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.”
― Mia Couto