3 Quotes by J.M. Ferreira

We temper the things we say, especially to those we love, when our silence is often the most harmful thing of all.

The thing about people who break your heart is that even after they do, over the months and years, throughout the rest of your life, some essential human part of you looks back with tenderness.

I didn’t know what to say. I’d been all argued out and the gravity of what he said, about the inexorable march of white supremacy, seemed too real and ominous to deny. Surely, not all foreigners were bad, but in the ledger of debits and credits they always seemed to come out ahead while natives—here and everywhere colonial flags have flown—came up short.