Gi Marques

“And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing.”
― Toni Morrison

“Outro dia, uma amiga se queixou ao telefone: “Tenho 27 anos e descobri que, até agora, tenho me alimentado de migalhas”. Falei qualquer coisa banal & consoladora, como “a vida é assim mesmo, paciência” – e desliguei. Só não desliguei a cabeça: a frase ficou dias dando voltas dentro dela, Até que, não lembro bem como, de algum lugar de dentro de mim veio a resposta que não cheguei a dar à minha amiga: “Mas será que isso que você chama de migalhas não será, afinal, o próprio pão?”
― Caio Fernando Abreu, A Vida Gritando nos Cantos

“the phrase comes to him before the emotion; but we must add that he is nevertheless a born writer, a man who detests meals, servants, ease, respectability or anything that gets between him and his art; who has kept his freedom when most of his contemporaries have long ago lost theirs; who is ashamed of nothing but being ashamed; who says whatever he has it in his mind to say, and has taught himself an accent, a cadence, indeed a language, for saying it in which, though they are not English, but Irish, will give him his place among the lesser immortals of our tongue.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Because what you are, as a teenager, is a small, silver, empty rocket. And you use loud music as fuel, and then the information in books as maps and coordinates, to tell you where you’re going.”
― Caitlin Moran, How to Build a Girl