André Gonçalves

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I’ve always felt there’s something genetically instilled and inbred in Californians—that California is a place of death, a place people are drawn to because they don’t realize deep down they’re actually afraid of what they want. It’s new, and they’re escaping their histories while at the same time moving headlong toward their own extinctions. Desire and death are all mixed up with the thrill and the risk of the unknown. It’s a variation of what Freud called the “death instinct.”
― Kim Gordon, Girl in a Band

“She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
― Joy Williams

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton