Sofia Aguiar > Sofia's Quotes

“A metrópole é velha e já não tem um pedaço de terra selvagem onde a mãe possa inventar um coração.”
― Dulce Maria Cardoso, O Retorno

“I wouldn’t have come up with something like that. Which is what we all want from art, isn’t it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us? Takes a piece of your heart out and shows it to you? It’s like they are introducing you to a part of yourself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , Daisy Jones & The Six

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain”
― Dale Carnegie, Steps for a More Fulfilling Life

“I am only alone when I think I am”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“Loneliness if often exacerbated by a perception that one is lonely while everyone else is connected. It's exaggerated by a sensation of being outside something that others seem to be in on: a family, a couple, a friendship, a joke.
Perhaps now we can learn how flawed that kind of thinking is, because loneliness is one of the most universal things any person can feel.”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves.”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“The problem isn't so much in the time one spends alone, but in how one feels about that aloneness”
― Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

“Every great design begins with an even better story.”
― Lorinda Mamo

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey

“You think you're the painter, but you're the canvas”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“if half the cells inside of you are not you, doesn’t that challenge the whole notion of me as a singular pronoun, let alone as the author of my fate”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“True terror isn’t being scared; it’s not having a choice in the matter.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“If taking a pill makes you different, like, if it changes the way-down you . . . that’s just a screwed-up idea, you know? Who’s deciding what me means—me or the employees of the factory that makes Lexapro?”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic—is that we can really only approach it through metaphor. It can’t be represented the way a table or a body can. In some ways, pain is the opposite of language.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.’ And we’re such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn’t real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“People always talk like there’s a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn’t, at least not for me. I remember what I’ve imagined and imagine what I remember”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down