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ai era suposto saber grego….. 🥹

not o livro a começar com uma frase de nietzsche e outra de plato

“But honestly, even in those darkest moments, the idea of anyone examining my naked corpse was enough to keep me alive.”

“I got over my childhood fear of the dark that day, I suppose. Nothing came for me--no angry spirits attacked me, no restless ghosts tried to suck out my soul. They left me alone down there, which was just as painful.”

“When I stole things I felt I was invincible, as though I had punished the world and rewarded myself, setting things right for once- justice served.”

“And at the time, I didn't believe my body was really mine to navigate, I figured that was what men were for.”

“Fashion's for the fools, I know now, but I've learned that it's good to be foolish from time to time.”

“It always peeved me when my flatness was met with good cheer, good manners, Didn't she know I was a monster, a creep, a crone?
How dare she mock me with courtesy when I deserved to be greeted with disgust and dismay?”

“People died all the time. Why couldn't I? (…) I didn't believe in heaven, but I did believe in hell. And I didn't really want to die I didn't always want to live, but I wasn't going to kill myself.”

“I didn't like movies for the same reason I don't like novels. I don't like being told how to think, It's insulting.”

“That was how I imagined my anatomy back then, brain like tangled yarn, body like an empty vessel, private parts like some strange foreign country.”

“I'd get angry, and I loathed him, yes, but my fury gave my life a kind of purpose.”

“I liked to think of my brain like that, tangled up in my skull. The idea that my brains could be untangled, straightened out, and thus refashioned into a state of peace and sanity was a comforting fantasy. I often felt there was something wired weird in my brain, a problem so complicated only a lobotomy could solve it-I'd need a whole new mind or a whole new life.”

mal comecei e já estou a amar este livro.

“What's wrong with you? Having a child is a totally natural part of being a woman. How could it possibly take that much out of you? My mum did it. Every woman does it. Get over it.”

“That was when I made up my mind. If this guy gets sick at some point (…) I'll be there when he's dying, standing over him, looking down, and I'm gonna say the same things he said to me. Dying is totally naturaI. Get over it.”

(…) “alone-there was no shortage of potential problems, but the same goes for most married couples, or parents left single after a divorce, or for parents who are single from the start. Life is hard, no matter the circumstances.”

+ “Do you really think that there's someone or something that can determine which families are ready for a child? What exactly qualifies as a 'real' family? Or a real home? If the world is full of these real' families, why all the abuse? Why do some parents murder their own children?"

(…) "those issues aren't necessarily limited to cases of donor conception. Any child with a disability could have difficulty connecting with their family. Who can guarantee if any couple is going to stay together? Aren't these questions relevant to anyone considering parenthood? I believe you also mentioned God, but how does that matter?” +

“Dead people and the words they leave behind can't change.”

“We had no money. We had nothing. But we had each other. We had our words, and all the feelings that we never even thought of putting into words.”