É certo que o meu ritmo de leituras tem vindo a decrescer, mas outra coisa não seria de esperar a partir do momento em que se tem uma casa para sustentar. Uma experiência maravilhosa, sem dúvida, mas com represálias nos hobbies que antes tentava manter diariamente. On the bright side, comecei a fazer algumas caminhadas ao fim-de-semana, coisa que nunca fiz antes na vida. É certo que o grande móbil para as fazer é jogar Pokemon GO mas.... ao menos estou a caminhar! E estou muito orgulhosa dos 70 km que fiz em dois meses!

Em Outubro sê prudente: guarda pão, guarda semente.
Em Outubro, paga tudo.
Logo que Outubro venha, procura a lenha.
Outubro meio chuvoso, torna o lavrador venturoso.
Outubro quente traz o diabo no ventre.
Quando Outubro for erveiro, Guarda para Março o palheiro.
Se em Outubro te sentires gelado, lembra-te do gado.
Em Outubro semeia e cria, terás alegria.
Mais vale um castanheiro do que um saco com dinheiro.  - Provérbios Populares

Louis Creed came to believe that the last really happy day of his life was March 24, 1984. The things that were to come (...) were still over seven weeks in the future, but looking over those seven weeks he found nothing which stood out with the same color. [p. 291]

Louis stared at her, nonplussed. He more than half suspected that one of the things which had kept their marriage together (...) was their respect of the mystery - the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe (...) there was no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. And no matter how well you thought you knew your partner, you ocasionally ran into blank walls or fell into pits, (...) an attitude or belief which you had never suspected, one so peculiar that it seemed nearly psychotic. (...) And if you valued your marriage and your piece of mind, you tried to remember that anger at such a discovery was the province of fools who really believed it was possible for one mind to know another. [p. 57]

When you got into the bathtub, Oz got right in there too - Shower with a Friend. He was in the water you drank, the food you ate. Who's out there? you howled (...) and it was his answer that came back: Don't be afraid, it's just me. Hi, howaya? You got cancer of the bowel, what a bummer, so solly, Cholly! Septicemia! Leukemia! Coronary thrombosis! Osteomyelitis! Hey-oh, let's go! Junkie in a doorway with a knife. Big handfuls of pills, munch em up. (...) Hi folks, my name's Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, but you can call me Oz if you want - hell, we're old friends by now. [p. 510]