Andreia

“He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way to live. It doesn't allow for special cases. A coin toss perhaps. In this case to small purpose. Most people don't believe that there can be such a person. You see what a problem that must be for them. How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of. Do you understand? When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That there could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world. Do you see?

Yes, she said sobbing. I do. I truly do.

Good, he said. That's good. Then he shot her.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“Os sentimentos que mais doem, as emoções que mais pungem, são os que são absurdos — a ânsia de coisas impossíveis, precisamente porque são impossíveis, a saudade do que nunca houve, o desejo do que poderia ter sido, a mágoa de não ser outro, a insatisfação da existência do mundo. Todos estes meios-tons da consciência da alma criam em nós uma paisagem dolorida, um eterno sol-pôr do que somos. O sentirmo-nos é então um campo deserto a escurecer, triste de juncos ao pé de um rio sem barcos, négrejando claramente entre margens afastadas.

Não sei se estes sentimentos são uma loucura lenta do desconsolo, se são reminiscência de qualquer outro mundo em que houvéssemos estado — reminiscências cruzadas e misturadas, como coisas vistas em sonhos, absurdas na figura que vemos mas não na origem se a soubéssemos. Não sei se houve outros seres que fomos, cuja maior completidão sentimos hoje, na sombra que deles somos, de uma maneira incompleta — perdida a solidez e nós figurando-no-la mal nas só duas dimensões da sombra que vivemos.

Fernando Pessoa : Livro do Desassossego...p. 190”
― Fernando Pessoa

“Why do you keep coming?" she asked.
"Because," he said. Click on this word, he thought, and you will find links to everything it means. Because you are my oldest friend. Because, once, when I was at my lowest, you saved me. Because I might have died without you or ended up in a children's psychiatric hospital. Because I owe you. Because, selfishly, I see a future where we make fantastic games together, if you can manage to get out of bed. "Because," he repeated.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Apprentice