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“Este último capítulo é todo de negativas. Não alcancei a celebridade do emplasto, não fui ministro, não fui califa, não conheci o casamento. Verdade é que, ao lado dessas faltas, coube-me a boa fortuna de não comprar o pão com o suor do meu rosto. Mais; não padeci a morte de D. Plácida, nem a semidemência do Quincas Borba. Somadas umas coisas e outras, qualquer pessoa imaginará que não houve míngua nem sobra, e conseguintemente que saí quite com a vida. E imaginará mal; porque ao chegar a este outro lado do mistério, achei-me com um pequeno saldo, que é a derradeira negativa deste capítulo de negativas: — Não tive filhos, não transmiti a nenhuma criatura o legado da nossa miséria.”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

“Ao verme que primeiro roeu as frias carnes do meu cadáver dedico como saudosa lembrança estas memórias póstumas”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

“Matamos o tempo, o tempo nos enterra.”
― Machado de Assis, Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas

“Cada qual sabe amar a seu modo; o modo, pouco importa; o essencial é que saiba amar.”
― Machado de Assis

“O mais feroz dos animais domésticos é o relógio de parede. Conheço um que já devorou três gerações da minha família.”
― Machado de Assis

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“Assim não tem graça, se já ficamos a saber o fim da história, E isso que importância tem, também o fim dos homens é morrer e o melhor deles é a vida contada e por contar.”
― José Saramago

“I may be in pain, but I am not weak.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“You want to see people as extremes. Bad or good, trustworthy or not. I understand. It's easier that way. But that isn't how people work.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“Pain had a way of breaking time down. I thought about the next minute, the next hour. There wasn't enough space in my mind to put all those pieces together, to find words to summarize the whole of it. But the "keep going" part, I knew the words for.
"Find another reason to go on," I said. "It doesn't have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason.”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star. One of over a hundred billion in our galaxy. A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. This helped me keep things in perspective.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

“Senhor Deus dos desgraçados!
Dizei-me vós, Senhor Deus!
Se é loucura... se é verdade
Tanto horror perante os céus?!
Ó mar, por que não apagas
Co'a esponja de tuas vagas
De teu manto este borrão?...
Astros! noites! tempestades!
Rolai das imensidades!
Varrei os mares, tufão!”
― Castro Alves, O Navio Negreiro

“Ontem a Serra Leoa,
a guerra, a caça ao leão,
o sono dormido à toa
sob as tendas d’amplidão!
Hoje... o porão negro, fundo,
infeto, apertado, imundo,
tendo a peste por jaguar...
E o sono sempre cortado
pelo arranco de um finado
e o baque de um corpo ao mar...”
― Castro Alves, O Navio Negreiro

“You," he said, "are amazing. Everything about my life has been planned out. Careful. It makes sense. I understand it. Then there's you. You ignore my authority. You follow your feelings. You talk like some Valkyrie from a scudding ballad! I should hate you. And yet..." He squeezed my shoulder. "And yet, when you fly, you are amazing. You're so determined, so skillful, so passionate. You're a fire, Spin. When everyone else is calm, you're a burning bonfire. Beautiful, like a newly forged blade." .”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“I pointed my nose right at the bomber down below, then i hit the overburn. "Cadet?" Ironsides said. "Pilot, what are you doing?"
"My weapons are gone . . . I have to ram it."
"Understood," Ironsides whispered. "Saints' own speed, pilot."
"What?" Jorgen said over the line. "What? Ram it? Spin!"
I dove toward the enemy bomber
"Spin," Jorgen said . . . "Spin you'll die."
"Yes," I whispered. "But I'll win anyway.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Skyward

“Eli drew his fingers through a ring of water on the table. “I don’t want to be forgotten.” He said it so softly he worried Victor wouldn’t hear, not over the chatter of the bar, but he clamped his hand down on Eli’s shoulder. For a moment he looked so serious, but then he let go and slumped back in his seat. “Tell you what,” said Victor. “You remember me, and I’ll remember you, and that way we won’t be forgotten.” “That’s shit logic, Vic.” “It’s perfect.” “And what happens when we’re dead?” “We won’t die, then.” “You make cheating death sound so simple.” “We do seem awfully good at it,” said Victor cheerfully. He lifted his glass. “To never dying.” Eli lifted his. “To being remembered.” Their glasses clinked as Eli added, “Forever.”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious