"When I was a kid, and alone [...] I would take these walks and I would get this feeling, this very deep sensation, and I understood - only the way a kid could understand these things - that it had something to do with God. But I don't mean God like some father figure, I don't even know what I mean - "

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)

Os animais são mais felizes; o instinto nunca lhes mente. Connosco, quando o instinto nos aproxima, aparecem os deveres, as conveniências, e coisas piores ainda. 

Agustina Bessa-Luís – Fanny Owen (1979)

Colecção Mil Folhas / Bibliotex SL / M.E.D.I.A.S.A.T. e Promoway Portugal Ltda (2002)

"You all know who you are. If you just look at yourself and listen to yourself, you know exactly who you are. And don't forget it."

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)

Maybe you fall in love with people who save your life, even when you think it's not worth saving. 

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)

Cindy said, "Mrs.Kitteridge, did you get married? Tom said he heard you married Jack Kennison [...] She said, "Yes, it's true. I have married Jack Kennison." [...] we're both old enough to know things now, and that's good."

"What things?"

"When to shut up, mainly"

"What things do you shut up about?" Cindy asked [...] "Well, for example, when he has his breakfast, I don't say to him, Jack, why the hell do you have to scrape your bowl so hard" [...] Imagine at my age, starting over again [...] "But it's never starting over, Cindy, it's just continuing on."

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)

And it came to him then that it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness were choices that required respect 

Elizabeth Strout – Olive, Again (2019)
Penguin Random House UK (2019)

[...] a corrupção que o homem que reflecte tira de todos os ensinamentos. 

Agustina Bessa-Luís – Fanny Owen (1979)

Colecção Mil Folhas / Bibliotex SL / M.E.D.I.A.S.A.T. e Promoway Portugal Ltda (2002)

Recrimine a falta de educação.

Rita Lee 

O esforço para sermos delicados vale alguma coisa. 

Agustina Bessa-Luís – Fanny Owen (1979)

Colecção Mil Folhas / Bibliotex SL / M.E.D.I.A.S.A.T. e Promoway Portugal Ltda (2002)

A verdade vive isolada do registo em que pode ser contada ao mundo. 

Agustina Bessa-Luís – Fanny Owen (1979)

Colecção Mil Folhas / Bibliotex SL / M.E.D.I.A.S.A.T. e Promoway Portugal Ltda (2002)