## Metadata * Author: [[Joaquim Assis]] * ASIN: B0BHPRXRT9 * ISBN: 1324095148 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BHPRXRT9 ## Highlights JOSÉ DIAS LOVED superlatives. It was his way of giving ideas a monumental feel; in the absence of any ideas, they served as a way of prolonging a sentence. — location: [201](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=201) ^ref-1038 --- José Dias had the gift of making himself welcome and indispensable; — location: [230](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=230) ^ref-9401 --- the overly sweet, mystical music of his fellow students was abhorrent to his essentially tragic genius. — location: [325](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=325) ^ref-13302 --- it’s plausible, which is often all one can say of the truth, — location: [365](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=365) ^ref-25901 --- The time he had spent in the post became a kind of hegira, from which he counted forward and backward. — location: [558](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=558) ^ref-40550 --- repeating what she had heard Father Cabral say. When — location: [1325](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=1325) ^ref-47107 --- already done so out of sheer tedium; after all, anything is possible. However, if you — location: [1453](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=1453) ^ref-10987 --- it was a lie like how maids tell visitors that “the mistress isn’t at home” when, in fact, the mistress just doesn’t want to speak to anyone. There is a peculiar pleasure in that complicity; that shared sin makes mistress and servant equal for a moment, — location: [1480](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=1480) ^ref-6953 --- there is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the briefest of ideas. — location: [2050](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=2050) ^ref-15973 --- promises are like fiat currency—for as long as the debtor does not pay them, they’re worth whatever the debtor says they are worth. — location: [2062](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=2062) ^ref-16834 --- the heavens rolled back the rain clouds and lit up the stars, not just the familiar ones, but even those that will only be discovered many centuries from now. — location: [2858](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B0BHPRXRT9&location=2858) ^ref-9688 ---