in a silent language
- margaret atwood

no tempo eterno e concreto
- josé luís peixoto
Much time passed. After a certain age, Angela, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March: you're always surprised at how much of it can accumulate, and how fast.

- Vivian in Elizabeth Gilbert's City of girls
A criança em ruínas I
José Luís Peixoto

fico admirado quando alguém, por acaso e quase sempre
sem motivo, me diz que não sabe o que é o amor.
eu sei exactamente o que é o amor. o amor é saber
que existe uma parte de nós que deixou de nos pertencer.
o amor é saber que vamos perdoar tudo a essa parte
de nós que não é nossa. o amor é sermos fracos.
o amor é ter medo e querer morrer.
O tempo, subitamente solto
José Luís Peixoto

o tempo, subitamente solto pelas ruas e pelos dias,
como a onda de uma tempestade a arrastar o mundo,
mostra-me o quanto te amei antes de te conhecer.
eram os teus olhos, labirintos de água, terra, fogo, ar,
que eu amava quando imaginava que amava. era a tua
a tua voz que dizia as palavras da vida. era o teu rosto.
era a tua pele. antes de te conhecer, existias nas árvores
e nos montes e nas nuvens que olhava ao fim da tarde.
muito longe de mim, dentro de mim, eras tu a claridade.
Agora é só saudade.
- Ivan Café com Canela, 2017
SUCCESSION, Season 01, Episode 10
When Shiv gets married to Tom and proposes a non-monogamous relationship

SHIV
You know, just a different shape of relationship. It could be exciting.

TOM
Right. Maybe, I guess. Yeah.

SHIV
It's exciting!

TOM
It's exciting.

SHIV
Yeah! Because we've torn everything else down. Right? Love is the last fridge magnet left.

TOM
Right. How do you mean?

SHIV
Well, I mean that love is like twenty-eight different things, and they all get lumped in together in this one sack, and there's a lot of things in this sack, it needs to get emptied out. There's fear and jealousy and revenge and control and they all get wrapped up in reallly nice fuckin' wrapping paper, and just looks really lovely and nice, but when you open it up...

TOM
No, no. You're right. It's love. It's bullshit.

SHIV
Yes!

TOM
But I do love you.

SHIV
I love you too.
Yet she was a woman who bravely played the game of life anyhow – and allowed the game of life to somewhat play her. She was ironic, but not cold. The effect was a survivor who had not lost the ability to feel.

- Vivian describing Edna in Elizabeth Gilbert's City of girls
Neither am I, Negan

The Walking Dead, S10E09

Every morning, I would bait him with a sunny greeting, just to hear his depressed response, which always changed by the day.
 "Good morning, Mr. Herbert!" I would say.
 "The point is debatable," he might respond.
 Or, another day: "Good morning, Mr. Herbert!"
 "I will half allow it."
 Or: "Good morning, Mr. Herbert!"
 "I fail to see your argument."
 Or, my favorite ever: "Good morning, Mr. Herbert!"
 "Oh, you're a satirist now, are you?"

- Elizabeth Gilbert in City of girls
Oh, I can feel you
Even though I haven't touched you
Yeah, that's what love is
- Justin Bieber, 2020


We can't look at each other
We can't touch
But we can feel
- Bent, 1997
staring sorrowfully at nothing
- elizabeth gilbert in city of girls
LUCIANA
Victor, I don't know what's left, where to be, what to fight for.

VICTOR
I see we've been asking ourselves the same questions. I'm at least enjoying myself while I ask them.

Fear The Walking Dead, S04E09