Sublime

“Ao fazermos uma prece num momento de ansiedade, de esforço além da conta, ela pode funcionar como um botão que apertamos para abrir o paraquedas que vai nos impedir de trombar com toda a força contra uma parede de tijolos ou de cair tão rápido e tão forte a ponto de esmagar todos os ossos do nosso corpo emocional”, ela escreveu num período difícil

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My mother and I talk only about material things, things far from what is truly important to us: she’s always been cold toward me; even when I was a child she seldom hugged me and when she did it increased my awe. She sent me to boarding school early. I think her attitude comes from the habitual reserve of her aristocratic family. In fact, she alway

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When I was twenty, Michele and the children already existed, even before I met him and they were born. They were my fate, even more than my calling. I had only to trust, to obey. If I think about it, that seems to me the cause of Mirella’s restlessness: the possibility of not obeying. That’s what has changed everything, between fathers and children

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