Raissa Pose

“A vida urbana é intrínseca e irremediavelmente ambivalente.”
― Zygmunt Bauman, Confiança e Medo na Cidade

“Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“We all live through it by ourselves, we don't know what else to do. I can't understand it with my mind. My mother especially has felt confused. She teaches Russian literature, and she always taught me to live with books. But there are no books about this. She became confused. She doesn't know how to do without books. Without Chekhov and Tolstoy.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster