André Caniato

“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“It took me many years to realize that it’s hard to live in this world. I don’t mean the mechanics of living, because for most of us, our hearts will beat, our lungs will take in oxygen, without us doing anything at all to tell them to. For most of us, mechanically, physically, it’s harder to die than it is to live. But still we try to die. We drive too fast down winding roads, we have sex with strangers without wearing protection, we drink, we use drugs. We try to squeeze a little more life out of our lives. It’s natural to want to do that. But to be alive in the world, every day, as we are given more and more and more, as the nature of “what we can handle” changes and our methods for how we handle it change, too, that’s something of a miracle.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

“Se queres conhecer o passado, busca os clássicos, se queres prever o futuro, vá a uma cartomante… mas para interpretar os dias em que vivemos, só vais encontrar as respostas lendo a ficção do nosso tempo. E algumas das mais fabulosas e distantes histórias do que se considera a Verdade e a Realidade são, por consequência, as que mais próximas chegam da essência das cousas. Todo homem anseia por ver cousas impossíveis, inimagináveis, não apenas para divertir e entreter seus sentidos, mas para ser deslumbrado ao confrontar o que antes julgava inconcebível.”
― Samir Machado de Machado, Quatro Soldados