Ler a minha dor nos outros / My pain is their pain

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive."

James Baldwin

O sal sagrado

 

"The Foam Sprite", Herbert James Draper.

"Deve haver algo estranhamente sagrado no sal... está nas lágrimas e no mar."

Khalil Gibran

Eu sou como Robinson... / I'm like Robinson...

...à espera de 6ª feira! :)
...waiting for friday!

Real beauty lies in-between spaces

"I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I’m coming to believe it’s in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there".

Shauna Niequist

Os livros como libertação / Books as release

 

Bernardo P. Carvalho

 

"She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release".

Peter Straub

De onde vem um poema? / Where does a poem come from?

 

 Joseph Severn (1793-1872)

 

"A poem can come out of something seen, something overheard, listening to music, an article in a newspaper, a book, a combination of all these…There’s a kind of emotional release that I then find in the act of writing the poem. It’s not, ‘I’m now going to sit down and write a poem about this.’"

Adrienne Rich

Citação e ilustração de Primavera / Spring is coming in quotes and illustrations

"Spring is the time of plans and projects".

Leo Tolstoy

Tenho tanta sorte! / I am so lucky!

Cada livro é um mundo.../ “Each book was a world unto itself..."

 

s.id.

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”

Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading

20 citações de William Zinsser sobre como escrever melhor / 20 Inspiring Quotes From William Zinsser's "On Writing Well"

20 Inspiring Quotes From William Zinsser's "On Writing Well" from Glenn Leibowitz

A literacia é liberdade / Literacy means freedom

 

"For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society".

LeVar Burton

Preguiçosos! / Woman reading by Vladimir Volegov

Vladimir Volegov

"Todos querem voltar à natureza, mas ninguém quer ir a pé".

Karin Petra Kelly

Riscos de ser introvertido / The risks of being an introvert

 

 

Di Cavalcante

 

"One of the risks of being quiet is that other people can fill your silence with their own interpretation: You’re bored. You’re depressed. You’re shy. You’re stuck up. You’re judgmental. When others can’t read us, they write their own story—not always one we choose or that’s true to who we are".

Sophia Dembling, The Introvert’s Way 

Estudo afirma que ler por prazer faz bem à nossa auto-estima / "Reading for pleasure boosts self-esteem"

s.id.

"People who read regularly for pleasure have greater levels of self-esteem, are less stressed, and can cope better with difficult situations than lapsed or non-readers, new research for Galaxy Quick Reads has found". Leia mais AQUI.

Disfruta dos teus livros! / Enjoy your books!

 

Bo Bartlett

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

Winston S. Churchill

O feitiço dos livros / Book spell

 

Lady in White by a Window, Carle John Blenner

 

"I barricaded myself in my room to read the first few lines. Before I knew what was happening, I had fallen right into it. The minutes and hours glided by as in a dream. When the cathedral bells tolled midnight, I barely heard them. Under the warm light cast by the reading lamp, I was plunged into a new world of images and sensations, peopled by characters who seemed as real to me as my room. Page after page I let the spell of the story and its world take me over, until the breath of dawn touched my window and my tired eyes slid over the last page. I lay in the bluish half-light with the book on my chest and listened to the murmur of the sleeping city. My eyes began to close, but I resisted. I did not want to lose the story’s spell or bid farewell to its characters yet". 

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

É verdade. / It's true.

Cervantes e as leitoras de Yuri Krotov / Cervantes and Yuri Krotov's paintings of a woman reading

 

 

 

«Em alguma parte de um livro existe uma frase esperando-nos para dar sentido à nossa existência.»

Cervantes

 

 

 

Pinturas de Yuri Krotov

 

A leitura enquanto envolvimento romântico / Reading is a love affair

 Francisco Sanchis Cortés

“Reading a good long novel is in many ways like having a long and satisfying affair.”

Stephen King

O livro enquanto magia / Books are magic

JOÃO VAZ DE CARVALHO

“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”

Carl Sagan