121 Quotes by Mia Couto

Osso é mais igual que pedra.

Ainda acreditou ser um pássaro que lançava ser seu voo da varanda para o distante chão. Nesse momento ele aprendia que o céu está padecendo de cataratas, repentinas névoas que impedem Deus de nos espreitar.

Sempre olhamos os seres alados com alguma inveja. Falta-nos a arte do voo. Desconhecemos, porém, que existem outros métodos para voar. E um deles, o mais simples e acessível, é deixarmo-nos encantar pelas suas histórias secretas.

AveSeria um pássaro No sono das asasondulavatoda a solidão do céuTerrestre,só a fugitiva sombraPaisagem nenhumalhe dava abrigoPousado,o corpode si mesmo se exilavaNos ensinavaa deslumbrância da viagema nós que só na morteolharemos os céus de frente

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

Love is a territory where orders can’t be issued.

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people’s heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

The greatest misfortune for a poor country is that, instead of producing wealth, it produces rich people. But rich people without wealth. In fact, it would be better to call them moneyed rather than rich: a rich person is one who possesses the means of production. A rich person is someone who generates money and provides jobs. A moneyed person is someone who quite simply has some cash. Or rather, he thinks he has. For, in reality, it’s the cash that has him.