"I never realized what a big deal that was, how amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head."

"Para onde vão os trens, meu pai? Para Mahal, Tamí, para Camirí, espaços no mapa, e depois o pai ria: também para lugar algum, meu filho, tu podes ir e ainda que se mova o trem, tu não te moves de ti." Hilda Hilst

"If there is pain, nurse it, and if there is flame, don't snuff it out, don't be brutal with it. Withdrawal can be a terrible thing when it keeps us awake at night, and watching others forget us sooner than we'd want to be forgotten is no better. We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything -- what a waste!" André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

"The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself. Of course, not everything is unstayable in words, only the living truth." George Steiner