Rafaella

“I began to feel that itch that every writer longs for: the itch to start getting words down, the itch to tell a story.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“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.”
― Jeanette Winterson, 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.”
― Erin Hanson

“A lembrança de Karla está ligada quase que exclusivamente à lembrança dos livros que não conseguiu levar consigo na noite da mensagem na parede. Agora Karla não passava de uma ladra de livros. É assim que ele às vezes a chama, resmungando, enquanto examina inutilmente as estantes: a ladra de livros.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees