Filipa

“Encheremos o mundo de coisas preciosas. Serão tantas que os homens passarão por elas julgando-as banais.”
― Afonso Cruz, Para Onde Vão Os Guarda-Chuvas

“Me falta algo, Eugenio. Sé que no debería ser así, pero lo es. La vida que tengo no me basta.”
― J.M. Coetzee, La infancia de Jesús

“And that, against this: the king-types who would snatch the apple from your hand and claim to have grown it, even though what they had, had come to them intact, or been gained unfairly (the nature of that unfairness perhaps being just that they had been born stronger, more clever, more energetic than others), and who, having seized the apple, would eat it so proudly, they seemed to think that not only had they grown it, but had invented the very idea of fruit, too,”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Had been bulky men, quietly content, who, in our first youth, had come to grasp our own unremarkableness and had, cheerfully (as if bemusedly accepting a heavy burden), shifted our life’s focus; if we would not be great, we would be useful.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo