“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”
José Saramago book Blindness
Dentro de nós há uma coisa que não tem nome, essa coisa é o que somos.
Source: Blindness (1995), p. 276
“When we turn, is there something shoved inside of us or is it more that something inside of us has been released?”
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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