Eric Machado

“You might like that one. But I’ll tell you the same thing I tell my students when they complain about the depressing nature of American literature: life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly (...)”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“Alguns erros e tropeços rendem muito mais risadas que os acertos. Quando achamos que está tudo errado é só porque estamos vendo pelo lado errado ou, até mesmo, ao lado das pessoas erradas. Tudo é uma questão de ponto de vista e de saber escolher quem vai estar ao nosso lado para enfrentar todo o resto do mundo.”
― Izabela Lopes, A Noite das Garotas