4 Quotes & Sayings By Mia Couto

Mia Couto is a Brazilian author of books for children and teenagers. She has published more than sixty books, including the best-selling "Jogo de Conchas" (The Shell Game), which has been translated into thirty languages, and "A Sentinela", which is a bestseller in Brazil and several other countries. Her most famous book, "O Pequeno Príncipe", was published in thirty languages and is considered to be one of the most successful children's books ever written.

After us, there was no more world to receive anyone.
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After us, there was no more world to receive anyone. Mia Couto
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Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories. Mia Couto
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-Back there our sun doesn't speak.- Where's "there, " Miss Marta?-Back there, in Europe. Here, it's different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts.- Surely- I commented delicately-the sun is always the same.- You're wrong. There, the sun is a stone. Here it's a fruit. Mia Couto