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“As we walked along the sand with our towels wrapped about us, I said that even that when I was her age, I had never dreamed of being a mother. Even as a young girl, it was something I had never wanted to do. I wanted to have boyfriends, and make art, and have interesting conversations and friends. Then the most honest words pushed themselves from my lips: I wanted to be free. She thought about this for a moment, and then said, That sounds pretty good, too.”
― Sheila Heti, Motherhood

“Não tinha dinheiro para o aquecimento, a minha vida de excessos não me permitia pagar todas as contas, vivia desse furor libertário que apaguizava a destruição interior.”
― Miguel d'Alte, A Origem dos Dias

“Because the world had decided that to be soft was to be weak, even though in Joan’s experience being soft and flexible was always more durable than being hard and brittle. Admitting you were afraid always took more guts than pretending you weren’t. Being willing to make a mistake got you further than never trying. The world had decided that to be fallible was weak. But we are all fallible. The strong ones are the ones who accept it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Atmosphere

“You can’t blame yourself for wanting to see the best in someone when that’s all they showed you, right up until it was too late,”
― Roxie Noir, The One Month Boyfriend