“I am desperately looking the other way so that love won’t see me.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“You said, ‘I love you.’ Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? ‘I love you’ is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“Stories aren't just stories if they've been read through before, for once a cover has been opened they turn into something more. A fingerprint of everyone who's ever turned its pages and a bookmark of the you you were when read at different ages. It's as though with each reread you leave a piece of you behind, a sliver of the past pressed for your future self to find. Until it's no longer the story that makes you pull it from the shelf, but the chance to reunite with younger versions of yourself.”
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“O amor constrói. Gostarmos de alguém, mesmo quando estamos parados durante o tempo de dormir, é como fazer prédios ou cozinhar para mesas de mil lugares. Mas amar é um trabalho bom.”
― O Paraíso são os Outros
― O Paraíso são os Outros
“Deixara de amá-la um segundo antes de começar a amá-la. Soa estranho, mas é assim que ele sente: em vez de amar Karla, ele amara a possibilidade do amor, e depois a iminência do amor. Amara a ideia de um vulto se movendo entre lençóis brancos e sujos.”
― The Private Lives of Trees
― The Private Lives of Trees
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