“Compenetro-me, então, do absurdo da minha condição: eu, que nunca levantara a voz, gritava agora por quem não pode escutar. Têm razão os que me acusam: estou louca, perdi o mando em mim. E desabo em pranto, como se estivesse reparando o quanto não chorei quando nasci. Adjiru tinha razão: tristeza não é chorar. Tristeza é não ter para quem chorar.”
― Confession of the Lioness
― Confession of the Lioness
“A insónia traz lembranças que eu não queria; o dormir lava memórias que eu queria guardar. O sono é a minha doença, a minha loucura.”
― Confession of the Lioness
― Confession of the Lioness
“E as pessoas nem sonham que quem acaba uma coisa nunca é aquele que a começou, mesmo que ambos tenham um nome igual, que isso só é que se mantém constante, nada mais.”
― The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
― The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
“I know it is my father's first time on this Earth, too. And I know He had it worse when he was little. But I was little too”
― Letter to His Father
― Letter to His Father
“Rose 1:1–2. She raised a flaming sword, not to rend her heart, but to seal the wound where a heart had been. For those who cast her out did not know this steadfast flame, alight with righteous anger, would never cease until the heavenly kingdom fell.”
― Camp Damascus
― Camp Damascus
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