Quotes By Person: Jorge Amado

“Then, it's Sem-Pernas's turn [to go on the merry-go-round]. He's silent, a weird emotion takes over. He walks over like a religious man goes to church, like a lover to the bosom of his loved one, like a suicidal person to death. He walks over pale and limping. He rides a blue horse that has stars painted on its wooden leg. His lips are tight, his ears don't hear the song that's playing. He can only see the lights that turn with him and he attaches himself to the certainty that he's in a merry-go-round, turning round and round in a horse like all those boys who have mothers and fathers, and a house, and someone to kiss them, someone to love them. He thinks he is one of these boys and closes his eyes to guard better this certainty. He can't see the policemen that beat him, the man in the jacket that laughed. (...) Sem-Pernas holds on tight to his horse. It's as if he ran over an ocean of stars, in the most marvelous journey of the world. A journey like the one Professor had never read or invented. His heart beats so much, so much, that he holds it in his hand.”

-Capitães da Areia, Jorge Amado

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