Maria João

“I began to wonder what all this talk of San Clemente had to do with us—how we move through time, how time moves through us, how we change and keep changing and come back to the same. One could even grow old and not learn a thing but this. That was the poet’s lesson, I presume.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Many sexually transmitted infections may never produce symptoms, or may take a long time-sometimes months or years-to produce symptoms.”
― Lisa Marr, Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Physician Tells You What You Need to Know