Rosa Aragão

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Rosa.


The Nightingale
Rosa Aragão is currently reading
by Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Relaxed Woman...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The XX Brain
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 5 books that Rosa is reading…
Loading...
Ray Bradbury
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.

It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Gabriel García Márquez
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Margaret Atwood
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

Haruki Murakami
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Halldór Laxness
“This was the first time that he has ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw. But what was of more value, he felt and suffered with her. In years that were yet to come, he relived this memory in song, in the most beautiful song this world has known. For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy.”
Halldor Laxness, Independent People

52937 Around the World in 80 Books — 31209 members — last activity 3 hours, 48 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more
179584 Our Shared Shelf — 222863 members — last activity 17 hours, 32 min ago
OUR SHARED SHELF IS CURRENTLY DORMANT AND NOT MANAGED BY EMMA AND HER TEAM. Dear Readers, As part of my work with UN Women, I have started reading ...more
428479 Alfred and friends in Lake Geneva — 6 members — last activity Sep 10, 2018 09:26AM
Book club in Lake Geneva area. We read fiction and non-fiction from different genres. We use this group to suggest and select books for our readings.
345436 Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine — 174969 members — last activity 1 hour, 5 min ago
Hey Y’all, We’ve been reading together for awhile and we don’t know about you, but we’re ready to hear your thoughts and opinions. This group is a pl ...more
year in books
jo-booksy
2,023 books | 72 friends

Alak Al...
384 books | 97 friends

Lisa
923 books | 24 friends

Pilar
1,694 books | 14 friends

Rebecca
1,872 books | 47 friends

Claus A...
271 books | 4 friends

Noah Bowen
342 books | 9 friends

Paola
202 books | 41 friends

More friends…
Prey by Michael CrichtonFluke by Christopher MooreCantor's Dilemma by Carl Djerassi
Lab Lit
173 books — 72 voters
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
Best Swedish Crime
190 books — 70 voters

More…



Polls voted on by Rosa

Lists liked by Rosa