Gi Marques

“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

“I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing.”
― Stephen Greenblatt

“The kindest words my father said to me
Women like you drown oceans.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Rir junto é melhor do que falar a mesma língua. Ou talvez o riso seja uma língua anterior que fomos perdendo à medida que o mundo foi deixando de ser nosso.”
― Mia Couto, Venenos de Deus, Remédios do Diabo