Gi Marques

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Rir junto é melhor do que falar a mesma língua. Ou talvez o riso seja uma língua anterior que fomos perdendo à medida que o mundo foi deixando de ser nosso.”
― Mia Couto, Venenos de Deus, Remédios do Diabo

“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"