Julia

“Com frequência, pensamos que, no amor, encontraríamos a parte que supostamente nos falta, a parte que nos livraria da nossa própria falta, a parte que nos preencheria. No entanto, no amor, o que se experiencia é o contrário. Quando amamos alguém, nossa falta tende a ser duplicada. Ao encontrar um amor, a gente não encontra a parte que nos faltava até então. A gente encontra a metade que fará falta a partir dali. Mira-se no amor, acerta-se na solidão!”
― Ana Suy, A Gente Mira no Amor e Acerta na Solidão

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“Listen, baby, people do funny things. Specially us. The cards are stacked against us and just trying to stay in the game, stay alive and in the game, makes us do funny things. Things we can't help. Things that make us hurt one another. We don't even know why. But look here, don't carry it inside and don't give it to nobody else. Try to understand it, but if you can't, just forget it and keep yourself strong, man.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage points. If we do so, we will see that the Atlantic is but a bridge linking the colorful, tropical Afro-Latin American world, whose strong ethnic and cultural bonds have been preserved to this day. For a Cuban who arrives in Angola, neither the climate, nor the landscape, nor the food are strange. For a Brazilian, even the language is the same.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Another Day of Life