Joana Diniz

“Ruth era Oxum, Maria e Madalena. O feminino pleno, sempre foi assim. Orgulho do pai, espelho da mãe, uma mulher para casar. Seria feliz em qualquer tempo, era ou lugar. Serviria ao burguês e ao guerreiro, era Afrodite encarnada, o feminino em pessoa. Futura esposa exemplar, despertou para a vida no apogeu final dos anos 50, embalada pela elegância de Tom e Vinicius. Amar estava na ordem do dia. Os adultos tomavam porres de dor de cotovelo e Ruth ansiava pelo seu dia de fossa. Prenda rara, e ciente da prenda rara que era, guardava-se para o ideal. Alimentava um romantismo pueril, se bem que cumprisse as exigências da nova era.”
― Fernanda Torres, Fim

“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book