Maria Amanda

“Life is such a strange thing, she thinks, once she has stopped laughing. Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves - living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they'd briefly managed to forget.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian

“... E foi assim que no grande parque do colégio lentamente comecei a aprender a ser amada, suportando o sacrifício de não merecer, apenas para suavizar a dor de quem não ama.”
― Clarice Lispector, Felicidade Clandestina

“People are like this too, you know. We break. We put ourselves back together. The cracks are the best part. You don't have to hide them.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“I should have become an "I" before I became a "we".”
― Irvin Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept