like puzzle pieces.

     "Dear Catherine,

     I've been sitting here thinking about all the things I wanted to apologize to you for. All the pain we caused each other. Everything I put on you. Everything I needed you to be or needed you to say. I'm sorry for that.
     I'll always love you 'cause we grew up together and you helped make me who I am. I just wanted you to know there will be a piece of you in me always and I'm grateful for that.
Whatever someone you become, and wherever you are in the world, I'm sending you love.      You're my friend to the end.

     Love, Theodore."

"I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It's a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity."  Her (2013)

"I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It's a crazy thing to do. It's kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity."
Her (2013)

star stuff.

You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.
— Carl Sagan

4 de maio

Hoje, um homem aproximou-se de mim. Vestia fato e usava gravata, mas eu reconheci-o de imediato.

Era um homem do Instituto. Estava disfarçado de pessoa normal.

Perguntou-me as horas e eu disse: Tenho dois trovões dentro dum envelope dos correios.
O da esquerda é de madeira e o do meio é fêmea.
É assim que nascem as cartas.

Ele, surpreendido com a minha resposta,
foi-se embora e não me internou.

 

Mas, por via das dúvidas, fui para casa com os sapatos calçados nas mãos.




O livro do ano
Afonso Cruz
Alfaguara