"I don't suppose I am very fond of anyone.
(...) Take away my affections and I should be like sea weed out of water; like the shell of a cabeça, like a husk. All my entrails, light, marrom, juice, pulp would be gone. I should be blown into the first puddle and drown. Take away my love for my friends and my curiosity of human life and I should be nothing but a membrana, a fibre, uncoloured, lifeless to be thrown away like any other excreta."

Following the steps of Buddha
#Kindle #seethesea #readingchallenge

Me at the end: 😐
This book is so rich through the first 3 parts. But the end is just really... meh
Anyway, a beautiful portrait of Pérsia history.

I try to find Heaven and Hell. Then I hear a solemn voice that says: "Heaven and hell are inside"

And quiet is the thought of you
The file on you complete
Except what we forgot to do
A thousand kisses deep

And sometimes when the night is slow
The wretched and the meek
We gather up our hearts and go
A thousand kisses deep

Colors 😍🌈

"This is where it all began, and where it all ended. Almost."

To finish my (kinda lame) Reading Challenge and to start 2019 with beatiful books..

Reading Sylvia Plath for the first time..

Learning about love, life and companionship. 🙏🏼❤️

Colorful books are beautiful books 😍

"The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"
It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period.
This is it: "Nothing.""

Been wanting to read Underground Railroad for the logest time! And now I'm gonna do it together with some Vonnegut 😍 #catscradle

Everyone should read Virginia Woolf from time to time. The Waves is just so beautiful. If you like insightful quotes and powerfull phrases, this book is for you. It's about time and friendship and how It shapes one's life. Totally a must read. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next."

The understanding that the teachings can only be preserved by giving them roots in practical life is far above most people's horizon.

Time for some Virginia Woolf again. ❤️📚

This book was such a precious gift from a friend on the way on a very special journey (in which I met Lama Ole). Been needing some inspiration lately, and what's better than the (real) aventures of Ole and Hannah while spreading buddhist teachings through Europe?

When work comes between you and your reading.. But the wait to finish this masterpiece was sooooo woth it! Awesome book! Lygia Fagundes Telles brings three different worlds to a single place during a period of dictatorship and torture.

Currently reading two awesome books about Girls. #StalinsCows brings the lives of three stonian girls Anna and her eating disorder, her mother Katarina who marries a finish guy (=capitalist) during the cold war, and their grandmother/mother who went through all the hard times during the sovietic leadership.
In #TheGirlInThePhotograph (thanks @batsy), Lygia F. Telles tells the story of three friends who go through Brazilian military dictatorship.

After waiting for two months, it's finally here!! Do you have any idea how long It takes to import books here in Brazil? But the wait is over and sooooo woth it!!

Took me a while, but finally finished it! An amazing journey through time, memories and loneliness.

Books with #numbers in the title + bad lighting 📚1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣4️⃣

"'How strange men are.' she said, because she could not think of anything else to say. 'They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayer books as gifts.'" #portuguese

Totally random thought:
I really love how this book plays with time, memories, love and death. Maybe because of their roles in our lives or maybe just because it is a common factor between us all (but different for each person).
So here go a advice for understanding life: please read Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
Have a nice week of readings, folks! 😘📚🌸😴

April TBR. Anxious for my first Sofi Oksanen's book (Stalin's cows). Any thoughts?

"Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end."

Reading A Hundred Years of Solitude again and falling in love with Garcia Márquez and Macondo all over again..

"Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other."

Lygia, Lygia...