Maria
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Maybe it was because when she was a little girl, a priest had once told her that hell was really just a grave.
“In water, like in books-you can leave your life.”
― The Chronology of Water
― The Chronology of Water
“A pessoa nunca se cura do que é.”
― A mão esquerda de Vênus
― A mão esquerda de Vênus
“Some people’s lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That’s what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. . . . It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it. —Jessica Stern, Denial: A Memoir of Terror”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“I'm so lonely in the world I want to peel all of my flesh off and walk, just bone and gristle, straight into the river, to be swallowed.”
― Girl in Pieces
― Girl in Pieces
“As suas outras costelas me
encarceraram em seu plexo.
Toc-toc-toc, bate com
timidez, logo que notei
Que deveria partir.
Ninguém abriu a porta.
Pedi, chorei, arranhei seu
interno. Nada.
Você não me quis, mas me
Prendeu. Você não me quis,
mas me costurou em você.”
― A Mão Esquerda de Vênus
encarceraram em seu plexo.
Toc-toc-toc, bate com
timidez, logo que notei
Que deveria partir.
Ninguém abriu a porta.
Pedi, chorei, arranhei seu
interno. Nada.
Você não me quis, mas me
Prendeu. Você não me quis,
mas me costurou em você.”
― A Mão Esquerda de Vênus
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