Abril Despedaçado Quotes

  • Pacu: [voiceover] Ma says God never gives us heavier burdens than we can bear, but God keeps messing up. He sometimes dumps such burdens on us we all collapse.

  • Father: The blood has turned yellow.

  • Pacu: [voiceover] In the land of the blind, one-eyed people are said to be mad.

  • Pacu: We're like oxen here. We go round and round and never go anywhere.

  • Salustiano: I'll be damned! I'm toasted!

  • Salustiano: My mother almost died giving birth. I was born purple - so purple they thought I was dead. True or false?

    [Clara nods]

    Salustiano: They ignored me for two hours while trying to save my mother, then they decided to wash me so I'd look decent for the funeral. As soon as I felt the cold water, I started howling. As a result, that was my first and last bath.

  • Mother: In this house, the dead command the living.

  • Mother: Even the worst life is better than being slaughtered like an animal.

  • Tonho: You're too damn strong.

    Pacu: No, you just forgot how to fly.