helena

“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“You," he said, "are amazing. Everything about my life has been planned out. Careful. It makes sense. I understand it. Then there's you. You ignore my authority. You follow your feelings. You talk like some Valkyrie from a scudding ballad! I should hate you. And yet..." He squeezed my shoulder. "And yet, when you fly, you are amazing. You're so determined, so skillful, so passionate. You're a fire, Spin. When everyone else is calm, you're a burning bonfire. Beautiful, like a newly forged blade." .”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Ontem a Serra Leoa,
a guerra, a caça ao leão,
o sono dormido à toa
sob as tendas d’amplidão!
Hoje... o porão negro, fundo,
infeto, apertado, imundo,
tendo a peste por jaguar...
E o sono sempre cortado
pelo arranco de um finado
e o baque de um corpo ao mar...”
― Castro Alves, O Navio Negreiro

“Assim não tem graça, se já ficamos a saber o fim da história, E isso que importância tem, também o fim dos homens é morrer e o melhor deles é a vida contada e por contar.”
― José Saramago