Carolina

“I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must forget their voices, their smells, their demands, their love, their hate, and be myself, I must be myself, I told myself, as i gazed down at the legs resting so happily on the stool, and I told myself again as I looked up to watch the smoke I'd blown up to the ceiling; I must be myself, because if I failed to be myself, I become the person they wanted me to be; if I had to be that insufferable person, I'd rather be nothing at all. It would be better if I didn't exist,...”
― Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book

“¿Qué sentido tiene estar con alguien si no te cambia la vida?
[...] la vida sólo tenía sentido si encontrabas a alguien que te la cambiara, que destruyera tu vida.”
― Alejandro Zambra

“Looking at the ocean makes me miss people, and hanging out with people makes me miss the ocean.”
― Haruki Murakami, Wind/Pinball: Two Novels

“Mas ela sorriu: onde é que está escrito que as vidas devem ter um sentido?”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child