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“Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“Why wasn’t friendship as good as a relationship? Why wasn’t it even better? It was two people who remained together, day after day, bound not by sex or physical attraction or money or children or property, but only by the shared agreement to keep going, the mutual dedication to a union that could never be codified.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Há pessoas que aparecem na nossa vida por uma porta que se abre, inesperada, e rapidamente desaparecem, engolidas por um alçapão escuro, sem que tenhamos tempo de perceber ao que vieram. Há sempre um motivo qualquer, que muitos anos depois conseguimos descortinar. Vieram satisfazer o nosso desejo de admiração alheia ou de beleza e entretenimento. Vieram possibilitar que conhecêssemos aluguem que também entrou e saiu, e foi importante, porque nos levou a um encontro especial, a um dia diferente, num lugar desconhecido, e nos proporcionou um passeio único, uma noite de beijos, riso e copos, ou uma amizade indestrutível, nesses minutos que a morte não consegue destruir. Ou alguém que ficou. Não há no mundo explicação para a entrada e saída de transeuntes e utentes pelas vidas uns dos outros.”
― A Gorda
― A Gorda
“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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