“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Não há consolo em dizer que o que nos acontece, nos acontece. Parte fazemos, parte nos fazem. Às vezes, é preciso ir longe para chegar vindo de trás e alcançar a véspera da véspera da véspera do acontecimento. O momento preciso em que tomamos ou somos tomados por uma direção e um belo dia… ou um triste dia, somos o que somos.”
― Véspera
― Véspera
“We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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