Augusto Sales de Queiroz > Augusto's Quotes

“It’s been a long fucking time since hope.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“But whatever this strange old comedy was, it wasn’t a proper or elevated or concerned with getting things right. It was a story intended to bring comfort to a dying girl.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“What’s so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“I'd always dismissed "transcendence" as an experience that divorced music from activism, but I walked away from that show a changed woman. I didn't have to choose between being a socially conscious person and being a singer who could connect with magic onstage.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“The things that look fixed in the world, child—mountains, wealth, empires—their permanence is only an illusion We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“For it to reach us in this room, in this hour, the lines within had to survive a dozen centuries. A scribe had to copy it, and a second scribe, decades later, had to recopy that copy, transform it from a scroll to a codex, and long after the second scribe’s bones were in the earth, a third came along and recopied it again, and all this time the book was being hunted. One bad tempered abbot, one clumsy friar, one invading barbarian, an overturned candle, a hungry worm—and all those centuries are undone.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“We know that Beta Oph2 has an atmosphere like Earth’s, that it has liquid water like Earth does, that it probably has forests of some type. But we will never see them. None of us will. We are the bridge generations, the intermediaries, the ones who do the work so that our descendants will be ready.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“[...] a story is a way of stretching time. [...] Anna imagines Antonius Diogenes, whoever he was, setting knife to quill, quill to ink, ink to scroll, placing one more barricade in front of Aethon, stretching time for another purpose: to detain his niece in the living world for a little longer.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Like a good boy, he obeyed: he stopped making maps. But like a real boy, he did not. Not really.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“The country round about my home was very rich in wild flowers," he writes, trying to blame the earth for his sin.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“For accomplishing such a feat, the old man was regarded by his neighbors as "shiftless and a waster of time.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“After Rufus's death, David's journals explode with color. Meticulously rendered sketches of wildflowers and ferns and ivies and brambles and any scraps of nature, it seemed, he could tear away from the world. The drawings are not artful; they are labored, covered in pencil smudges, ink stains, eraser marks, and little tears from overly vigorous coloring in. But in the crudeness you can see it-his obsession, his desperation, the near-muscular effort he was exerting to pin down the forms of the things unknown to him.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“In this way, Agassiz presented nature as a sacred text. Even the dullest slug or dandelion could offer spiritual and moral guidance to those humans curious enough to look.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“He informed me that there is no meaning of life.
There is no point. There is no God. No one watching you or caring in any way. There is no afterlife. No destiny. No plan. And don't believe anyone who tells you there is. These are all things people dream up to comfort themselves against the scary feeling that none of this matters and you don't matter. But the truth is, none of this matters and you don't matter.
Then he patted me on the head.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“He seems to permit himself just one lie to constrain his otherwise voracious hedonism, to form a kind of moral code.
While other people don't matter, either, treat them like they do.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“Even atheists like ritual.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“Before I found out about Olympia's punk scene, I thought that everyone making music was untouchable and magical. But when I saw Tobi from the Go Team at the Smithfield Café, I realized, She's in the Go Team and she goes to the same coffee shop I do. If she could be in a band, maybe I can too.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“The first time Amy Carter played live I felt like I was gonna puke all over the microphone. But by our third song, the feeling I had being Annie in grade school and the feeling I had opening for Acker morphed into one thing. We performed a couple of times at Reko Muse and then the band fizzled out when senior year started, which was fine. I knew who I was now. I was a singer in a band.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I cannot explain to you how utterly crazy these comments by my
"punk family" made me feel. I had just seen the most important band in the world. All I wanted to do was to get their information so I could invite them to play at Reko Muse, All I wanted was to be near them. They were everything. I'd seen God and she was three women playing songs in a shack in the middle of nowhere.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“Up till then, I'd dated people by default, because I either needed help paying rent or was afraid of what would happen if I rejected them-but Luke was different. I chose him. I ended up going home with him after a party a few nights Inter and woke up so deeply in love that there aren't enough poems or songs or words to ever explain it.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“Many of the domestic violence survivors had to work jobs an hour away from where they lived to save money to buy generators. That way they could move into cabins in the middle of the woods and not have any bills so their exes couldn't find them. Before living off the grid was an environmentally friendly, small-footprint thing or something that right-wing Armageddon preppers did, battered women were already doing it. For them, the apocalypse was every day.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I realized that night that there was something really powerful about counseling women at places where they already hung out instead of at a crisis center.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I thought those were pretty big words coming from a guy who covered AC/DC songs.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I am still so grateful that a guy we'd never met put his time and energy into what most people considered a shitty opening band. It made me see myself as worthy in the underground scene. It also undid a lot of shit other men doled out to me on that tour.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“Poetic lyrics were important, but it felt like women sometimes hid behind poetry as a way to say something without actually saying it. I was on a mission to just fucking say it.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I thought it was interesting, but selfishly I just wanted to relive my own childhood and win this time.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I realized that sexism was telling me to stay home and not par pate in the larger world. "Dance to records by yourself in your room would say. "Stay at home and read alone!" it would yell. I decided I gonna do everything in my power to make Bikini Kill shows a brief prieve from sexism, even if it was imperfect and fleeting.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

“I yelled "Revolution girl style now!" before "Double Dare Ya" like I'd been doing live and reassured myself that the session was meant to take a snapshot of our songs, not to make them sound perfect. Maybe being sloppy would inspire other girls to start bands.”
― Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk