Mariana

“Trying relentlessly to make you love me, but I don’t want the love—I quite prefer the quest for it. The challenge. I am always disappointed with someone who loves me—how perfect can he be if he can’t see through me?”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“It’s very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he’ll find that you are not the person he thought you were.”
― Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

“— Usul, você está chorando — Chani murmurou. — Usul, minha força, você está oferecendo umidade aos mortos? Aos mortos de quem?
— Àqueles que ainda não morreram.”
― Frank Herbert, Duna

“We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right.”
― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others