Eric Machado

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Alguns erros e tropeços rendem muito mais risadas que os acertos. Quando achamos que está tudo errado é só porque estamos vendo pelo lado errado ou, até mesmo, ao lado das pessoas erradas. Tudo é uma questão de ponto de vista e de saber escolher quem vai estar ao nosso lado para enfrentar todo o resto do mundo.”
― Izabela Lopes, A Noite das Garotas

“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly (...)”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook