thay

“Mesmo não sabendo que era amor, sentiam que era bom.”
― Jorge Amado, Capitães da areia

“Dear Milena,
I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“O amor é o que o amor faz. Amar é um ato da vontade — isto é, tanto uma intenção quanto uma ação. A vontade também implica escolha. Nós não temos que amar. Escolhemos amar”.”
― bell hooks, Tudo sobre o amor: novas perspectivas

“you ask
if we can still be friends
i explain how a honeybee
does not dream kissing
the mouth of a flower
and then settle for its leaves”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers