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„I was amazed, I crumpled the envelope as I leaned against the window ledge. The sheet in my other hand trembled. The wind wanted to blow it upward and make the move I wouldn't take.
The letter remained folded, then refolded, but my heart had been unfolded, I don't even know how many times, it didn't fit back into my chest anymore.“

„You've already seen that there's no way, there's no way, change will always come, whether we run after it or it runs over us, without asking us to move out of the way. And it's good that it comes, closure is what's good for you, the right ending that pushes us in the right direction, if it weren't for the finality of the end, would we just live the same day every single day?“

„…realizing that what we are doesn't come from anything we were taught, it just doesn't, because you and Father raised me right, gave me everything, it comes from inside, it hurts when we realize were hurting everyone because of how they were raised to feel about this, because everyone grows up learning to reject this kind of person, who has to run away from what they were taught and go after what's inside…“

"Horizon stretcher." Our teacher explained words in poems mean more than they seem, words are stretched, so where words alone can't go, with poetry they can, they fly, like the bird, the bird that can hear loud silences, the loud silences, that can open up dawns, shrink rivers, horizon stretchers, only words can do that!

„Raimundo waited, for Cícero, for his father. The cross's shadow shrank and then stretched out on the ground, thin, menacing, until it touched his feet, his plans and words. The sterile darkness of the room where his father beat him started to grow inside him, the crack of the belt licking at his back with the hunger of a blade skinning an animal.“