...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.
Jose SaramagoWhen we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf?
Jose SaramagoThere are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is, and if the book has any kind of message, I suppose that's it.
Jose SaramagoThe church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
Jose SaramagoThis must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.
Jose Saramago