Rafaella

“Ninguém brinca, ninguém conversa: os adultos escrevem cartas que ninguém vai ler, as crianças fazem perguntas que ninguém vai responder.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“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.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“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

“You must look for constellations in the orange city lights. View each streetlamp as a star that's simply fallen from the night. So that even tired of footsteps feel like learning how to fly, and you're never truly trapped right where the earth touches the sky. Then when your world is turned upside down, you'll know no matter where you are, that you will always have the chance to fall asleep among the stars.”
― Erin Hanson