Joana Ribeiro

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“Viver é como escrever sem corrigir.”
― António Lobo Antunes

“Sabia que ali dentro, naquele sótão, estava tudo cheio de letras a fingirem-se de mortas, mas — sei muito bem — basta que passemos os olhos por elas para saltarem cheias de vida.”
― Afonso Cruz, Os Livros Que Devoraram o Meu Pai

“Writing begins in the body, it is the music of the body, and even if the words have meaning, can sometimes have meaning, the music of the words is where the meanings begin....Writing as a lesser form of dance.”
― Paul Auster, Winter Journal