Pessoa is one of the most famous writers in Portugal! I found out about him from Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin a lot of years ago. This book was good, but it was too long and Pessoa's life was not that interesting besides that he had multiple personalities and stuff.

"I'm suffering from a headache and the universe."

"Given the dearth of people he can get along with, what can a man of sensibility do but invent his own friends, or at least his intellectual companions?"

"I've created in myself various personalities. I constantly create personalities. Each of my dreams, as soon as I start dreaming it, is immediately incarnated in another person, who is then the one dreaming it, and not I."

"He was incapable of being pragmatic, of taking practical steps to achieve realistic goals... "

"Dead we're born, dead we live, and already dead we enter death."

"What is life that we should care for it?
What is love that we should bear for it
Hope and despair and misery?

Nothing is worth anything.
Let us shut out hope,
And cross our arms and close our eyes
And let apathy be king"

"Agency of Indefinite Business Matters."

"Perhaps glory tastes like death and futility, and triumph tastes smells of rottenness."

"I am no longer me, I'm a fragment of myself conserved in an abandoned museum."

"the school was conceived as a form of international outreach, whereby Portuguese professors... would teach the rest of the world how to sublimely, aristocratically do nothing at all."

""Today I'm not me," Fernando would warn her, "I'm my friend Alvaro de Campos.""

"We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept - our own selves - that we love."

"But at any rate it doesn't matter, because at any rate, nothing matters."

This is a nonfiction book about punctuation marks! In history, there were a lot of different punctuation marks, and a lot of them got lost! So it's interesting to read about them!!!

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It was a fast read. About a sister who takes over her sister's identity to get health insurance for her cancer.

"I know that attending college is like praying to God. It's not that you believe in it; you do it just in case."
"People don't really want to know how you're doing =. They want to wait until you're done telling them so they can tell you how they're doing."

I read this book, and it was okay! It was about a student who works for someone who he looks up to and in the end turns out to be a crook or something.

"And that's when I realized that loving someone was basically, simply, this: to be the fuel for her depletions."

"It is often difficult to live just one life."

"A handful of extraordinary people come up with world-tilting ideas, but the rest of us, the 99.99 percent, we simply orbit."

"We're engineered with an ever-ready PTSD, maybe because surviving usually means suffering."

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I enjoyed this book. 

page 36: i love the toilet, and I spend a lot of time there. In fact, I'm writing this on the toilet right now."

page 258" Haruki Murakami bumper cars: fasten your seat belts for a bumper car ride based around an original story by the novelist Haruki Murakami! It's a real fender/mind bender!"

I really got into this book!I recommend it! And the author is super smart, and parachutes refers to students from another country and their parents drop them off in the USA to live with a host family to get an American eductation. This book also follows sexual abuses by men which is so horrible :-(

The first half was interesting, the author tries to live in Berlin and stuff, but then the love story and baby weren't doing it for me. But I would still recommed it! also, the quote are from the Large Print Eidtion!

page 27: "When she asked him once what his last meal would be, he replied instantly and thoughtfully, "Banana. Because I wouldn't want to be full when I die."

page 52: "Jet lag had a habit of turning her into her mother, a high school librarian with a quiet drinking problem. If only my mother had been a college librarian, she thought. THen I would have had a real shot at the right ideas."

page sixty-eight: ""Don't normalize it!!!!!' we shouted at each other. But all we were normalizing was the use of the word normalize, which sounded like the action of a ray gun wielded by a guy named Norm to make everyone around him Norm as well."

page 100: "And he just gazed far off into the distance and said, I don't know how to act. I've been this way so long, I don't know how to be anymore."

page 105: "His two-year-old son, when asked whether he was a boy or a girl, invariably answered that he was a gun."

page 218: ""I am a very advanced life-form," she answered one night, "but soon I must return . . . to the Planet 9/11."

page 105, "... I hate being alone with CHAIR. This is a chair that sits in the middle of my apartment and talks to me -- and only ever to say mean things! It's pretty ridiculous for a piece of furniture to have a personality, but that's just how it is. And it talks just like my mother."

So I read this a long time ago, I think it was good, but I can't remember :\

page 57: "There was no way for me to make my life go away. My thoughts made me want to scream at the top of my lungs..."

page 124: "There's no beautiful world where everyone thinks the same way and they all understand each other perfectly. It doesn't exist. You think it does, but it's not real. When you really look at what's going on, everyone's living in their own world..."

page 167: " But  wasn't crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us."

page 43: "If you really think about it, "Kojima said, "it's kind of stupid. Human beings are the only ones talking all the time and making problems and everything."