Marco Graça

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“Now the search is all that matters. I know there will come a time when I find my book, but it is far in the future. And I know without doubt that it will not be today. Yet a strange hope remains. A hope that somehow, something, God, the demon, Ahura Mazda, someone, will see I’m trying. I’m really trying, and that will be enough.”
― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

“He often wondered, in that suburban second story, if people who loved each other had to cause each other pain.”
― Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, The Life of a Stupid Man