Bruno Paula > Bruno's Quotes

“I miss being young. I miss being young and strong. Young and fast. Young and in love. Nothing like it. Old love is good, too. But you get the feeling that the world mainly just wants you out of the way.”
― T. Jefferson Parker, California Girl

“The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.”
― Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

“People you knew when you were teenagers, the ones who saw your stupidest haircut and the most embarrassing things you've done in your life, and they still cared about you after all that: they're not replaceable, you know?”
― Tana French, Broken Harbour

“Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.”
― Steve Hamilton, The Lock Artist

“Soon the Mississippi night hummed by outside his windows, bug, bird, frog, the wind on his face.”
― Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter

“Life went past you in a flash, like a bus on a rainy night in Ness. You had to be sure it saw you and stopped to let you on, otherwise it was gone without you, and you would be left with a miserable walk home in the wind and the wet.”
― Peter May, The Blackhouse

“Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.”
― Laura Lippman, What the Dead Know

“I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.”
― M. L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“No one ever has or ever will travel quite the same path on earth...”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“it’s always the wrong people who have the guilty conscience. Those who are really responsible for suffering in the world couldn’t care less.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web

“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“But in another city, another valley, another ghetto, another slum, another favela, another township, another intifada, another war, another birth, somebody is singing Redemption Song, as if the Singer wrote it for no other reason but for this sufferah to sing, shout, whisper, weep, bawl, and scream right here, right now.”
― Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings

“Um homem da aldeia de Neguá, no litoral da Colômbia, conseguiu subir ao céu.
Quando voltou contou que tinha contemplado, lá do alto, a vida humana. E disse que somos um mar de fogueirinhas.
- O mundo é isso - revelou - Um montão de gente, um mar de fogueirinhas.
Cada pessoa brilha com luz própria entre todas as outras. Não existem duas fogueiras iguais. Existem fogueiras grandes e fogueiras pequenas e fogueiras de todas as cores. Existe gente de fogo sereno, que nem percebe o vento, e gente de fogo louco, que enche o ar de chispas. Alguns fogos, fogos bobos, não alumiam nem queimam; mas outros incendeiam a vida com tamanha vontade que é impossível olhar para eles sem pestanejar, e quem chegar perto pega fogo.”
― Eduardo Galeano, The Book of Embraces

“Corremos pelo passeio de mãos dadas. A minha mão a envolver a mão fina dela: a força dos seus dedos dentro dos meus. Na noite, os nossos corpos a correrem lado a lado. Quando parámos: as nossas respirações, os nossos rostos admirados um com o outro: olhámo-nos como se nos estivéssemos a ver para sempre. Quando os meus lábios se aproximaram devagar dos lábios dela e nos beijámos, havia reflexos de brilho, como pó lançado ao ar, a caírem pela noite que nos cobria.”
― José Luís Peixoto, Cemitério de Pianos

“Out of a still, clear day, the wind suddenly picked up.
It bowed the grass in his direction, unaccountably lifting his spirits and making him think that maybe she hadn't minded his devotion, after all.”
― Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains

“Resentment is like swallowing a poison and waiting for the other person to die.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there's no tomorrow.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savor every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realize we can never know more than we don’t know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.”
― Michael Robotham, Life or Death

“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“Most people are sheep and sheep don't eat meat”
― Stephen King, Mr. Mercedes

“It’s very important for your life to have meaning. Even on the days it makes you unhappy, you still need a purpose.”
― Karin Slaughter, Cop Town

“And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

“They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving,”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

“Like her, he cared more for the future than the past, more for hope than anger.”
― John Hart, Redemption Road

“The other possibility was that there was no right thing to say, that the choice wasn't between right and wrong but between wrong, more wrong, and as wrong as you can get.”
― Richard Russo, Empire Falls

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