Writings in English

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we are golden [a birthday wish]

[from my vault — versão em português aqui] Dear A., It is your birthday, and I have known you for almost an entire season. The end of Spring brought you to me, and I caught myself falling for you as the days got longer and the weather changed into unbearable…

out on my own

My mum tells me that, as a child, I loved playing alone the most. I can confirm that, as far as I can remember. In fact, it was such a thing, that it took me years to get over the fact that having a young sister meant I couldn’t always…

#3. the words you left behind

[Originally published on 18 September, 2019] This text is the third in a series. The previous ones (first, second) haven’t been translated yet. When I started writing this series, I wanted to talk about people and relationships as if they were lights, inspired by this song called “Mikrokosmos”. I must…

like a polaroid

I have never hated writing as much as I do these days. I have also never written as much as I have, these days. Since the end of August, I have started, sketched, completed, abandoned, more than 20 different essays. Most of them will never leave my drafts. Journal entries…

no filter

“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live! Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow, as if I had given vent to the stream at the lower end and consequently new fountains flowed into…

Sparks

in honour of Taylor’s Version of “Speak Now” coming out today. I started a playlist the day we got together for the first time. We had just met the day before. I had known who you were for maybe three weeks, but I had not given myself the space to…

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