Julia Boechat Machado

“For no Reason?"
"For every reason". Rie emptied her sake cup. "Let's start with how she viewed my dad. He was your typical king of the hill. We couldn't say anything growing up. I was a kid, and a girl on top of that, so he never saw me as a real person. I never even heard the guy call my mother by name. It was always Hey you. We were constantly on red alert because my dad would beat the shit out of us or break things for no reason. Of course, outside the home, he was a pillar of the community. He ran the neighborhood council, and all that. My mom was my mom, always laughing it off, running the bath for him, cleaning up after him, feeding him. She looked after both of his parents all the way to the end, too. There was no inheritance, either. Yeah, my mom was free labor - free labor with a pussy.”
― Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

“Vivi, estudei, amei, e até cri,

E hoje não há mendigo que eu não inveje só por não ser eu.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“(Come chocolates, pequena;

Come chocolates!

Olha que não há mais metafísica no mundo senão chocolates.

Olha que as religiões todas não ensinam mais que a confeitaria.

Come, pequena suja, come!

Pudesse eu comer chocolates com a mesma verdade com que comes!

Mas eu penso e, ao tirar o papel de prata, que é de folhas de estanho,

Deito tudo para o chão, como tenho deitado a vida.)”
― Fernando Pessoa

“How would you say “delightful talk” in Russian?’
‘How would you say “good night”?’
Oh, that would be:
Bessónnitza, tvoy vzor oonýl i stráshen;
lubóv’ moyá, otstóopnika prostée.
(Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen,
my love, forgive me this apostasy.)”
― Vladimir Nabokov