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“He reflected on his loneliness. It hurt in his chest, it seemed
enormous to him. But, he thought, those footprints on the beach were a crumb in the vastness of the universe.
He felt alive and tiny in the face of the mystery of creation. He took off in the helicopter and
hovered over the trail in the sand.
There are countless ways for God to reveal Himself to men. For Beco, it was enough to have some
marks in the sand on a sunny day in the vast solitude of Angra dos Reis”
― Adriane Galisteu, Caminho das Borboletas. Adriane Galisteu

“Life is but a moment in time, a grain of sand, the blink of
an eye. So why does it seem like a millennium? Death alters
our perceptions of loved ones. It makes us remember what we
should forget.”
― Judith Exner, My Story

“But truth is tied to words, to print, to the testimony of the page. Moments shower away; the days of our lives vanish utterly, more insubstantial than if they had been invented. Fiction can seem more enduring than reality”
― penolope lively

“This time I'd turned my life over to someone who didn't
want it. Why had I done that? And why was I so passive, so
unable to take possession of myself? Why did I always have
the feeling that my life was over there when I was standing
here? Why did everything seem to be repeating itself?”
― Katherine Brady, Father's Days