Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

- Mia Couto

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

- Mia Couto

Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a…

- Mia Couto

He who seeks eternity should look at the sky, he who seeks the moment, should look at the cloud.

- Mia Couto

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

- Mia Couto

I was eleven years old when I saw a woman for the first time, and I was seized by such sudden surprise that I burst into tears.

- Mia Couto