Melanie

“Renova-te.
Renasce em ti mesmo.
Multiplica os teus olhos, para verem mais.
Multiplica-se os teus braços para semeares tudo.
Destrói os olhos que tiverem visto.
Cria outros, para as visões novas.
Destrói os braços que tiverem semeado,
Para se esquecerem de colher.
Sê sempre o mesmo.
Sempre outro. Mas sempre alto.
Sempre longe.
E dentro de tudo.”
― Cecilia Meireles

“The doctor simply refused to take pity. And added: when you don’t know what to eat make a nice Italian spaghetti.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“She wasn’t crying because of the life she led: because, never having led any other, she’d accepted that with her that was just the way things were. But I also think she was crying because, through the music, she might have guessed there were other ways of feeling,”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Only then did she see that her life was miserable. She felt like crying when she saw her other side, she who, as I said, had always thought she was happy.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star