Júlia

“Uma criança recém-nascida, julga-se infinita. Não sabe onde é que acaba, onde é que tem os seus limites. Depois, descobre os pés e fica fascinada. É um bebé que se depara com os seus limites: Ah, é então aqui que finda o meu corpo. E, aos poucos, o mundo vai-se tornando maior, porque a criança se vai tornando mais pequena: antes era tudo e agora não vá além dos pés. Vai-se contraindo. O ego vai-se arrepiando num pontinho e deixando espaço para que as coisas possam existir à sua volta. Surge o Eu e o Tu. A criança cria essa distância, e o melhor que se pode esperar é que essa distância mantenha alguma proximidade. Mas tudo isto faz parte do crescimento, tal como faz parte do encolhimento e da expansão do universo.”
― Afonso Cruz, Jesus Cristo Bebia Cerveja

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar