Filipa Barbosa

“...onde está ou tenha estado um homem é preciso que esteja ou tenha estado toda a humanidade.”
― Miguel Torga

“Courage, dear heart.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“At that moment I knew what the plebs were, much more clearly than when, years earlier, she had asked me. The plebs were us. The plebs were that fight for food and wine, that quarrel over who should be served first and better, that dirty floor on which the waiters clattered back and forth, those increasingly vulgar toasts. The plebs were my mother, who had drunk wine and now was leaning against my father’s shoulder, while he, serious, laughed, his mouth gaping, at the sexual allusions of the metal dealer. They were all laughing, even Lila, with the expression of one who has a role and will play it to the utmost.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“The universal is the local without walls”
― Miguel Torga