Bárbara Seixas

“A melancolia é impossível de combater porque, a partir do momento em que nos aventuramos no mundo, teremos sempre saudades de tudo. De tudo. Do que fizemos e do que não fizemos, de quem se cruzou no nosso caminho e de quem jamais conseguiremos encontrar.”
― João Tordo, Biografia Involuntária dos Amantes

“Glass is transparent, right? And fragile. That's the fundamental nature of glass. And that's why objects that are made of glass have to be handled with care. After all, if they end up smashed or cracked or chipped, then they're good for nothing, right, you just have to chuck them away.
Before, we used to have a kind of glass that couldn't be broken. A truth so hard and clear it might as well have been made of glass. So when you think about it, it was only when we were shattered that we proved we had souls. That what we really were was humans made of glass.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts

“We don’t know enough about ourselves. I think it’s better to know that you don’t know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that’s why so many people are so lost.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“Perhaps this was one of the tragedies life plots for us: it is our destiny to become in old age what in youth we would have most despised.”
― Julian Barnes, The Noise of Time