"The Stone Raft" Quotes
In "The Stone Raft," José Saramago imagines the Iberian Peninsula breaking off from Europe and drifting across the Atlantic, exploring themes of identity, politics, and human connection through the journey of its displaced inhabitants.
fiction | 292 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
A stone raft is not something one can explain, it is something one must see.
When something is about to change, it is not uncommon for us to feel a certain unease.
The world is made of changes, big and small, but the small ones pass unnoticed.
The only certainty we have in life is that we are going to die.
A man follows a woman because she is the woman he has been waiting for, as if each woman were the one.
Sometimes one feels afraid and does not know why.
For every one of us, the world ends in a different way.
It is always good to start a journey, but it is even better to return.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself.
We are all like stones waiting to be thrown.
