Monisse

In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person's soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.

“imagino como seria te amar teria o gosto estranho das palavras que brincamos e a seriedade de quando esquecemos quais palavras imagino como seria te amar desisto da ideia numa verbal volúpia e recomeço a escrever poemas.”

... language itself seduced her. She fluttered with the knowledge that certain words in a certain order could rearrange her on the inside, like moving furniture. Words changed and remade her constantly, and no one else could even sense a difference.

Me, not talking: Ah fuck, I am being weird