Joana Margarida

“There isn’t a version of me that could’ve looked away from you.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world to dissolve or break down, although they remain forever in our thoughts and in our knowledge, solid and putrid and stinking to high heaven. But that is bearable and we can live with it. Who doesn't carry something of that nature around with them?”
― Javier Marías, Los enamoramientos

“She had made the kitchen a lovely place. Isabel could cry at it: at how a room could be made, and left behind, and turn terrible by way of absence. How a space could miss a person.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“(...)parece que não vês que as palavras são rótulos que se pegam às cousas, não são as cousas, nunca saberás como são as cousas, nem sequer que nomes são na realidade os seus, porque os nomes que lhes deste não são mais do que isso, os nomes que lhes deste,(...)”
― José Saramago, Death with Interruptions