Julia Guarinelo

“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“Eu e Antônio estamos casados há vinte e seis anos. Nem sempre é bom, nem sempre é ruim. Desconheço a balança que mede isso. É o que é, aceito, rejeito, mas não escolho mais tirar de mim esse amor entranhado, pertence a lugares em mim que não mando mais. Não fico tomando conta, podia ser assim, podia ser assado, medindo com régua o que falta. Não quero viver sem Antônio, me caso todos os dias com ele, acordo e caso, depois faço o café. Tem dia que ele tá chato de doer, largo pra lá, vai ser chato longe de mim e pronto. Ele melhora sozinho, depois piora e torna a melhorar, e a gente vai assim tomando distância e diminuindo distância. Caminhando.”
― Carla Madeira, Tudo é rio

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar