Mia Couto

The Tuner of Silences

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  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    past was an illness and memories a punishment.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    Terror at loving you in such a fragile place as the world.

    Woe at loving you in this imperfect place

    Where everything leaves us broken and silent

    Where everything deceives and divides us.

    Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    Standing there, I faced the road as if it were cutting me in half as it passed under the vehicle, separating joy from sadness.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    Mine was a strange appetite: for the first time, it wasn’t enough for me to see the world. Now, I wanted to see the way I looked at the world.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    When we are children, we never take our leave of places. We always think we’ll be back. We never believe it’s the last time.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    father says that in the city, people gave the stars names. And they did so because they were afraid . . .

    —Afraid?

    —Afraid because they felt the sky might not belong to them.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    That’s what makes a place: entering and leaving. That’s why we didn’t live anywhere at all.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    I breathe slowly for fear of disturbing constellations.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    A poet grows when faced by absence, as if absence were his altar, and he became greater than the word.
  • Елена Захарьеваhas quoted4 years ago
    The body wasn’t embracing the ground like local corpses do.
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