CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE

• “no milímetro que nos separa cabem todos os abismos.”

SARAH BOSWELL

• “my demons, though quiet, are never quite silenced. calm as they may be, they wait patiently for a reason to wake, take an overdoe breath, and crawl back to my ear”

UNKNOWN

• “between seas, galaxies and moons i was lucky i stepped on the same land i dreamed under the same stars as you.”
  • “i know. i know. the past haunts you. i know. let me kiss your fears away.”
  • “i love you. if there are good words enough to describe the happiness you give me, i haven't found them. the only thing i know is that i've never loved anyone this much before. and i know that i never will, unless with you, over and over again.”

STEVE ERIKSON

• “the lesson of history is that no one learns.”

LOOKING FOR ALASKA

• “i've always liked quiet people: you never know if they're dancing in a daydream or if they're carrying the weight of the world.”

NIKITA GILL

• “we have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.”

AS VANTAGENS DE SER INVISÍVEL

• “então, eu acho que somos quem somos por varias razões. e talvez nunca conheçamos a maior parte delas. mas mesmo que não tenhamos o poder de escolher quem vamos ser, ainda podemos escolher aonde iremos a partir daqui. ainda podemos fazer coisas. e podemos tentar ficar bem com elas.”

LANG LEAV

• “it was all i want for the longest time — to open my eyes and see you there. to stretch out my hand and touch the soft, yielding warmth of your skin. but now i have learned the secret of distance. now i know being close to you was never about proximity.”

C. C. AUREL

• “love make the shy brave and the brave shy.”

LANA RAFAELA

• “i think it's brave that you get up in the morning even if your soul is weary and your bones ache for a rest. i think it's brave that you keep on living even if you don't know how to anymore. i think it's brave that you push away the waves rolling in every day and you decide to fight. i know there are days when you feel like giving up but i think it's brave that you never do.”

BENEDICT SMITH

• “i wish i wrote the way i thought; obsessively, incessantly, with maddening hunger. i'd write myself into nervous breakdowns, manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles, into abysmal nothing. and i'd write about you a lot more than i should.”

QUIET GIRL IN A NOISY WORLD: AN INTROVERT'S STORY

• “i always doubt i'm living up to my full potential. i fell like i should constantly be doing something to improve myself, learning new things, and growing as a person. when will i know it's okay to stop? perhaps never...”
  • “whenever i read a good book i tend to get emotionally attached to the characters, and when i've finished reading it, it feels like a relationship just ended.”

THE QUIET AMERICAN

• “from childhood i had never believed in permanence, and yet i had longed for it.”

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

• “i'm a master of speaking silently. all my life i've spoken silently and i've lived through entire tragedies in silence.”

TYLER KNOT GREGSON

• “i love you, in ways you've never been loved, for reasons you've never been told, for longer than you think you deserved and with more than you will ever know existed inside me.”

STEVE MARABOLI

• “i will spend and eternity loving you, caring for you, respecting you, showing you every day that i hold you as high as the stars”

VIRGINIA WOOLF

• “i see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists, the reality of everything.”

KIERSTEN WHITE

• “and i'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, i'd find you and i'd choose you.”

OVÍDIO

• “perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (seja paciente e resistente; um dia esta dor será útil para você)”

J. B. (TEMPORARY)

• “you're afraid to let yourself be happy because you know that it never lasts.”

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS

• “i will use a flower petal for paper, and write you the sweetest letter, you are the sultan of my heart, sultan of my heart.”

CELESTE

• “isn't it strange how people can change from strangers to friends, friends into lovers and strangers again?”

THE MINDS JOURNAL

• “i'm a paradox. i want to be happy, but i think of things that make me sad. i’m lazy, yet i’m ambitious. i don’t like myself, but i also love who i am. i say i don’t care, but i really do. i crave attention, but reject it when it comes my way. i’m a conflicted contradiction. if i can’t figure myself out, there’s no way anyone else has.”

PEDRO MIRANDA

• “eu queria desmoronar em um abraço que amenizasse minha tristeza, pois aquele dia estava sendo péssimo, mas não havia ninguém. eram apenas 7:00 da manhã e o peso do universo estava todo em cima de mim. não queria chorar... mas chorei”

SIRIUS BLACK

• “o mundo não se divide em pessoas boas e más. todos temos luz e trevas dentro de nós. o que importa é o lado o qual decidimos agir. isso é o que realmente somos.”

JERICO SILVERS

• “dear universe, if i never get successful because i have a lot of fears, may you at least allow me to be happy for having a lot of love.”

CONSTANT-NXTHING

• “'you can't love someone unless you love yourself first' bullshit. i have never loved myself. but you oh god, i loved you so much i forgot what hating myself felt like”

A LADEIRA DA SAUDADE

• “este livro é para todos os jovens —de corpo ou de espírito— que ainda acreditam que o romantismo é a maior riqueza da alma.”

TIMOTHY JOSHUA

• “you are different.” “how so?” “look at everyone else. they are merely words, while you, you are poetry.”

WE WERE LIARS

• “can i hold your hand?” he asked. i put mine in his. “the universe is seeming really huge right now,” he told me. “i need something to hold on to.” “i'm here.” his thumb rubbed the center of my palm.”

ANDREW GARFIELD

• “she came in and she was like a shot of espresso. she’s like being bathed in sunlight. she’s incredibly energetic and enthusiastic and she had this sense of play and fun which was incredibly exciting.”

PETER PARKER (SPIDER-MAN)

• “just because i had spider sense didn't mean i had common sense”

JANE AUSTEN

• “and sometimes i have kept my feelings to myself, because i could find no language to describe them in.”

MARTHA GRAHAM

• “a dancer dies twice — once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.”

SYLVIA PLATH

• “that was my last act of love.”