The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

I am like my characters - sometimes even the female ones.

I have already told you Father, more than once: I’m not going to subject myself to a husband chosen for me, I’m not going to bury myself in some planter’s kitchen, and I’m not going to be a servant to some doctor or lawyer in Ilhéus. I want to live my own life. When I finish school at the end of the year, I want to go to work in an office

I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

Love is not to be proven or measured...It exists, and that is enough.