“- Não gosto de pretos, Kindzu.
- Como? Então gosta de quem? Dos brancos?
- Também não.
- Já sei: gosta de indianos, gosta da sua raça.
- Não. Eu gosto de homens que não tem raça. É por isso que eu gosto de si, Kindzu.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Agora, eu via o meu país como uma dessas baleias que vêm agonizar na praia. A morte nem sucedera e já as facas lhe roubavam pedaços, cada um tentando o mais para si”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Afinal, em meio da vida sempre se faz a inexistente conta: temos mais ontens ou mais amanhãs?”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“A morte, afinal, é uma corda que nos amarra as veias. O nó está lá desde que nascemos. O tempo vai esticando as pontas da corda, nos estancando pouco a pouco.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Quem não tem amigo é que viaja sem bagagem”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Aquele momento confirmava: o melhor da vida é o que não há-de vir.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Foi por isso que fizeram esta guerra, para envenenar o ventre do tempo, para que o presente parisse monstros em lugar de esperança. (...) Porque esta guerra não foi feita para vos tirar do país mas para tirar o país de dentro de vós.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“O que faz andar a estrada? É o sonho. Enquanto a gente sonhar a estrada permanecerá viva. É para isso que servem os caminhos, para nos fazerem parentes do futuro.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Talvez, quem sabe, cumprisse o que sempre fora: sonhador de lembranças, inventor de verdades. Um sonâmbulo passeando entre o fogo. Um sonâmbulo como a terra em que nascera.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“As mulheres, em instante, ficaram tema. Mulheres é bom quando não há amor, disse. Porque o amor é esquivadiço. A gente lhe monta casa, ele nasce no quintal. Vale a pena uma puta, miúdo. Gastamos o bolso, não o peito.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Agora, já o barquinho balouça. Aos poucos se vai tornando leve como mulher ao sabor da carícia e se solta do colo da terra, já livre, navegável.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Afinal, eu estava como dizia o cantador da aldeia: no sossego, sou cego; na timaca (confusão) não vejo”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“grão a grão o papa se enche de galinhas”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“A gente vai chegando à morte como um rio que desencorpa no mar: uma parte está nascendo e, simultânea, a outra já se assombra no sem-fim.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“E ao ouvir os sonhos de Tuahir, com os ruídos da guerra por trás, ele vai pensando: não inventaram ainda uma pólvora suave, maneirosa, capaz de explodir os homens sem lhes matar. Uma pólvora que, em avessos serviços, gerasse mais vida. E do homem explodido nascessem os infinitos homens que lhes estão por dentro.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Aquele lugar lhe deixava um frio interior. Afinal, todos queremos no peito o nó de um outro peito, o devolver da metade que perdemos ao nascer.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Tudo o resto se passou em silêncio como se perto já não se escutassem. O amor que trocaram é assunto para duas vidas inteiras, abandonadas para sempre num barquito sem rumo.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Fui para o convés, molhado até dentro dos olhos.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Cinzas, se nos olhos dela dormitavam, em brasas se acenderam.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
“Aqui só há outroras, isto é água riscando fósforos.”
― Mia Couto, quote from Sleepwalking Land
Mia Couto
Born place: in Beira, Mozambique
Born date July 5, 1955
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“Robin didn't like that idea very much-Jules spending time with Adam? "I get jealousy too, you know. You used to be in love with him."
Jules turned his head to look at him. "That was before I knew what love really was". He smiled. "When I met you, Robin, God.... I had to redefine everything. You know, there was this country song my mother really liked. It used to annoy me, I was in my technopop phase, but lately I just... I find myself thinking about the lyrics all the time. That was a river, this is the ocean.... I thought I loved Adam, and I did, but... it wasn't even close to this incredible ocean that I feel for you".”
― Suzanne Brockmann, quote from All Through the Night
“If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?”
― Marquis de Sade, quote from Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
“Galaxy 500′s cover of Yoko Ono’s Listen, the Snow Is Falling, or Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, The Chambermaids Down in the Berries,”
― Anne Frasier, quote from Hush
“What would have happened had he not been killed? He would certainly have had a rocky road to the nomination. The power of the Johnson administration and much of the party establishment was behind Humphrey. Still, the dynamism was behind Kennedy, and he might well have swept the convention. If nominated, he would most probably have beaten the Republican candidate, Richard M. Nixon. Individuals do make a difference to history. A Robert Kennedy presidency would have brought a quick end to American involvement in the Vietnam War. Those thousands of Americans—and many thousands more Vietnamese and Cambodians—who were killed from 1969 to 1973 would have been at home with their families. A Robert Kennedy presidency would have consolidated and extended the achievements of John Kennedy’s New Frontier and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. The liberal tide of the 1960s was still running strong enough in 1969 to affect Nixon’s domestic policies. The Environmental Protection Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act with its CETA employment program were all enacted under Nixon. If that still fast-flowing tide so influenced a conservative administration, what signal opportunities it would have given a reform president! The confidence that both black and white working-class Americans had in Robert Kennedy would have created the possibility of progress toward racial reconciliation. His appeal to the young might have mitigated some of the under-thirty excesses of the time. And of course the election of Robert Kennedy would have delivered the republic from Watergate, with its attendant subversion of the Constitution and destruction of faith in government. RRK”
― Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., quote from Robert Kennedy and His Times
“This hospital, like every other, is a hole in the universe through which holiness issues in blasts. It blows both ways, in and out of time.”
― Annie Dillard, quote from For the Time Being
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