Melissa

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Melissa is Currently Reading

Melissa is currently reading

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

bookshelves: currently-reading, contemporary, drama, north-american-literature, romance

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Melissa’s Quotes

“but his long thin fingers moved with grace and persuasion, as if giving to the words a shape that his voice could not.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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“A saudade é uma tatuagem na alma: só nos livramos dela perdendo um pedaço de nós.”
― Mia Couto, O Outro Pé da Sereia

tags: saudade

25 likes

“Je veux que tu saches pour toujours à quel point je t'aurai aimé; je ne sais pas vers quelles rives je pars, mais s'il existe un ailleurs, je continuerai à t'y aimer avec toute cette forces et toute cette joie dont tu as rempli ma vie.”
― Marc Levy, Et si c'etait vrai

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“A gente não vai para o céu. É o oposto: o céu é que nos entra, pulmões adentro. A pessoa morre e é engasgada em nuvem.”
― Mia Couto, Um Rio Chamado Tempo, Uma Casa Chamada Terra

tags: morte

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“a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: “A hero is one who wants to be himself.”
― John Williams, Stoner

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