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“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Ele repetira-me demasiadas vezes a sua lenda preferida, a de São Martinho, o que reparte a capa. Portanto, tendo absorvido uma mensagem tão generosa, podia gastar o seu latim à vontade com a conversa dos pretos.”
― Caderno de Memórias Coloniais
― Caderno de Memórias Coloniais

“On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.”
― Concrete
― Concrete

“We see so much sadness if we care to look.”
― Concrete
― Concrete

“Moçambique é essa imagem parada da menina ao sol, com as tranças louras impecavelmente penteadas, perante a criança negra empoeirada, quase nua, esfomeada, num silêncio em que nenhum sabe o que dizer, mirando-se do mesmo lado e dos lados opostos da justiça, do bem e do mal, da sobrevivência.”
― Caderno de Memórias Coloniais
― Caderno de Memórias Coloniais
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