A Sociedade dos Sonhadores Involuntários Quotes

“Pacifism, my dear brother, is like a mermaid: it can only breathe in the sea of fantasy, reality doesn’t suit it. Let alone this reality of ours today, which is so very cruel. Angola is no place for the faint of heart.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

“Have you noticed that the sun that gives pomegranates their color, or leaves a glow on the skin after an afternoon on the beach, is the same sun that yellows and erases the photos of our youth?” I asked Hossi. “The light strengthens the colors of everything alive, and fades whatever is inanimate. The sun lights up the living and wipes out the dead.” “And”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

“I finished eating, did the washing-up, and stretched out on the sofa with a book in my hands: Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez, which I’d found yesterday hidden under the bed, in a cardboard box.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

“Sometimes they dreamed entire pieces of music. Paul McCartney dreamed “Yesterday.” He woke up with the tune in his head, sat down at the piano and played it from one end to the other. He was convinced he must have heard it somewhere before, and so he didn’t dare record it. He thought it wasn’t his. For months he went around whistling the tune to his friends, to try and find out who had come up with it, until he was finally convinced he really had found it in his dreams.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers

“He returned some hours later, with grilled chicken for dinner, and two bottles of a Chilean wine called Gato Negro. I don’t really like wine, I’m more a beer kind of guy, but I did like this one. We ate well, we finished the Gato Negro.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Society of Reluctant Dreamers