Vera Morais

“O que é que este poeta faz?
Poemas, respondi eu.
Para que servem?
Para muitas coisas. Há poemas que servem para ver o mar.”
― Afonso Cruz, هيا نشتر شاعرًا

“...'I, for example, have several dear friends... Now am I in love with all of these people?'
I continued to press my point: 'Yes,' I said. 'You are a little in love with all those people you care for.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat

“For as long as I lived, I would travel far and wide, meeting with people whose languages I did or did not know, and everywhere I went, I would be looking for Maria Puder. In every pair of eyes, I would be searching for the Madonna in a Fur Coat. I knew from the outset that I would never find her. Yet it was not in my power to give up searching. She had condemned me to a lifelong quest for a cypher, for someone who did not exist. She should never have done this to me.”
― Sabahattin Ali, Madonna in a Fur Coat

“Must be nice. To be able to be weak. I wouldn’t know.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising