Gi Marques

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
― Toni Morrison

“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“the phrase comes to him before the emotion; but we must add that he is nevertheless a born writer, a man who detests meals, servants, ease, respectability or anything that gets between him and his art; who has kept his freedom when most of his contemporaries have long ago lost theirs; who is ashamed of nothing but being ashamed; who says whatever he has it in his mind to say, and has taught himself an accent, a cadence, indeed a language, for saying it in which, though they are not English, but Irish, will give him his place among the lesser immortals of our tongue.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Outro dia, uma amiga se queixou ao telefone: “Tenho 27 anos e descobri que, até agora, tenho me alimentado de migalhas”. Falei qualquer coisa banal & consoladora, como “a vida é assim mesmo, paciência” – e desliguei. Só não desliguei a cabeça: a frase ficou dias dando voltas dentro dela, Até que, não lembro bem como, de algum lugar de dentro de mim veio a resposta que não cheguei a dar à minha amiga: “Mas será que isso que você chama de migalhas não será, afinal, o próprio pão?”
― Caio Fernando Abreu, A Vida Gritando nos Cantos