Torneiras Quotes & Sayings

They were complicated years. The order of the world in which we had grown up was dissolving. The old skills resulting from long study and knowledge of the correct political line suddenly seemed senseless. Anarchist, Marxist, Gramscian, Communist, Leninist, Trotskyite, Maoist, worker were quickly becoming obsolete labels or, worse, a mark of brutality. The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere. Meanwhile, by means legal and illegal, all the accounts that remained open in the state and in the revolutionary organizations were being closed with a heavy hand. One might easily end up murdered or in jail, and among the common people a stampede had begun. — Elena Ferrante

What's your name?" he asked above the roar of the music.
She leaned close. "My name is Wind," she whispered. "And Rain. And Bone and Dust. My name is a snippet of a half-remembered song."
He chuckled a low, delightful sound. She was drunk and silly, and so full of the glory of being young and alive and in the capital of the world that she could hardly contain herself.
"I have no name," she purred. "I am whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be."
He grasped her by her wrist, running a thumb along the sensitive sknin underneath. "Then let me call you Mine for a dance or two. — Sarah J. Maas

A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. — Chevy Chase

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines. — Thomas Bangalter

For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy. — Lenny Kravitz

Let every reader do as his conscience bids him. — Hermann Hesse