Bruise

“Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“I start to think that I'm losing the love I have without having yet won the love I hope to win.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

“Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.”
― Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello