Plano de fuga para uma segunda-feira / Monday's escape plan

E depois de terminar um livro fantástico? / And after finishing an amazing book?

Começar outro livro!
Start another book!

Fim de semana outra vez! / Weekend all over again!

8 citações sobre o que é ser pai ou mãe / 8 quotes about what it means to be a parent

 

Charles West Cope, "O hush Thee, my baby", 1874 

1.  “To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”

- Dr. Seuss, writer and cartoonist

2. “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."

- Elizabeth Stone, teacher and author

3. “Your children need your presence more than your presents.”

– Jesse Jackson, American civil rights activist and Baptist minister 

4. "There really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child." 

- Anne Lamott, novelist and nonfiction writer

  
5. “Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”

- The 14th Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader and advocate for peace

6. “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”

- Anne Frank, diarist

7. "Parenthood… It’s about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last." 

- Peter Krause, actor

8. “Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”

- Lady Bird Johnson, Former First Lady of the United States

 

Se as pessoas fossem chuva... / ...if people were rain...

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.” 

John Green

Esta frase tem cinco palavras / "This sentence has five words"

 

Harry Rutherford

“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals–sounds that say listen to this, it is important.”

Gary Provost

Escrever não é uma coisa científica

 

Juan González Alacreu

"Eu não tenho um método. Tudo o que eu faço é ler muito, pensar muito, e reescrever constantemente. Não é uma coisa científica."

Gabriel García Márquez

Os livros são.../ Books are...

 Albert Fitzberger (1853-1915)

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time."

Edwin P. Whipplen

Um livro é... / A book is...

 

Heidi Berger

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it."

Edward P. Morgan

Um mundo sem livros / A beautiful reader

 Francis John Wyburd

“Hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin pájaros; hay quienes no pueden imaginar un mundo sin agua; en lo que a mí se refiere, soy incapaz de imaginar un mundo sin libros“

Jorge Luis Borges

Tudo flui num eterno presente. / "…everything flows in an eternal present."

 

Iman Maleki 

"…everything flows in an eternal present."

James Joyce

Desgosto de amor / Heartbreak

 

 Marcus Stone

"We loved with a love that was more than love".

Edgar Allan Poe

“The heart was made to be broken.”

Oscar Wilde

Quem nunca ficou com o coração partido?

Primeiro leitor, depois escritor / First a reader, then a writer

 

Serge Zhukov

"Like many others who turned into writers, I disappeared into books when I was very young, disappeared into them like someone running into the woods. What surprised and still surprises me is that there was another side to the forest of stories and the solitude, that I came out that other side and met people there. Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people think, but purpose or vocation, which manifests in part as the ability to endure a lot of solitude and keep working. Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act that is so intimate and yet so alone".

Rebecca Solnit

As nossas obrigações para com a palavra escrita, por Neil Gaiman / Neil Gaiman on Our Obligations to the Written Word

I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.

We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

 Neil Gaiman

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As máscaras que vestimos para o mundo/ Our fictitious selves

 

Carl Theodor von Blaas

"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world."

Kate Chopin

Memórias / Memories

 

F.G.Waldmuller

"As memórias são quadros nas paredes da alma."

Antonio Curnett

O livro segundo Leonardo Sciascia

"Um livro é um objecto: pode colocá-lo sobre uma mesa ou apenas guardá-lo, mas se o abrir e o ler torna-se num mundo".  

Leonardo Sciascia

O que é um livro? / What is a book?

 

Martha Kiss

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire

Quebra / Broken

 Anna Magruder 

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places". 

Ernest Hemingway

Amar como um cão / To love as a dog

Jim Daly 

“The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.”

M.K. Clinton