Elvin

“Chega um tempo em que não nos é permitido não saber.”
― Judith Viorst, Perdas Necessárias

“When the English adopted the institution of the jury, they were a half-barbaric people; they have since become one of the most enlightened nations of the globe, and their attachment to the jury has seemed to increase with their enlightenment.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“Sometimes, it’s not our choices that turn us into who we are. Sometimes, it’s fate. Circumstance. Sometimes, we are pricked by so many thorns that we forget the fact that everyone else is traveling down the same thorn-ridden path.”
― Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir