💬 Quotes

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"É uma tolice esperar que os filhos compreendam as lutas dos pais; eles só conhecem o fruto, nunca a terra onde a árvore foi plantada."
Terra Abençoadaby Pearl S. Buck
"A riqueza é como uma névoa matinal; ela brilha intensamente sob o sol, mas dissolve-se sem deixar rastro se não estiver ancorada em algo sólido."
Terra Abençoadaby Pearl S. Buck
"O ciclo da vida é um eterno retorno: o homem nasce, trabalha o solo, colhe o que planta e, enfim, retorna ao pó que ele mesmo cultivou."
Terra Abençoadaby Pearl S. Buck
"She was sitting at the lunch table, but she was elsewhere. She was in a different world, a different time, a different dimension. She was a different species."
Stargirlby Jerry Spinelli
"We didn't live for ourselves. We lived for one another. We were a community. And she was the best of us."
Stargirlby Jerry Spinelli
"I want to be remembered for the things I wrote, and the love I gave, and the things I didn't say."
The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"Once, I was loved for my wit and my looks. Now, I am loved for my invisibility."
The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"Everything is possible, he said. And he was right. Everything that has happened in the world has happened because someone imagined it first."
The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"The problem with being noticed is that it's just the first step toward being forgotten."
The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"I was looking for a way to say everything. To say that I was still here, and that I was still the person who had loved her, even if she didn't know it."
The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"A person is a collection of all the people they’ve ever known, and all the people they’ve ever loved, and all the things they’ve ever lost."
The History of Loveby Nicole Krauss
"Every woman has a list. A mental catalog of the ways she changes her behavior to survive the world."
Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"It’s the tragedy of being a woman—you’re taught to be polite, even when your gut is screaming at you to run."
Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"Andrea wasn’t just a person; she was a warning. A ghost story that hadn’t finished being told yet."
Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"The darkness didn't come from the woods. It came from the people who walked through them looking for someone to break."
Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"If you wait for a sign that something is wrong, you’ve already waited too long."
Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"We are told we’re the weaker sex, but the amount of terror we endure just to exist proves otherwise."
Ask for Andreaby Noelle W. Ihli
"To love is to be vulnerable, to open the door to a room that can be devastated, but it is the only way to truly live."
Watchersby Dean Koontz
"He knew that the moment he held that object in his hand he was choosing his life."
Native Sonby Richard Wright
"What I killed for must've been good! It must have been good! When a man kills, it's for something."
Native Sonby Richard Wright