Leticia

“My youth was reacting, it was necessary to live.”
― Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas

“He had, in fact, though his sisters were now doing all they could for him, by calling him "poor Richard," been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle himself to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

“I had no children, I did not transmit to any creature the legacy of our misery.”
― Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas