Leonel Raymond

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Leonel.


Loading...
Thomas Hardy
“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”
Thomas Hardy

Richard Bach
“Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.”
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Rainer Maria Rilke
“THE UNICORN: The saintly hermit, midway through his prayers
stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to witness
the unbelievable: for there before him stood
the legendary creature, startling white, that
had approached, soundlessly, pleading with his eyes.

The legs, so delicately shaped, balanced a
body wrought of finest ivory. And as
he moved, his coat shone like reflected moonlight.
High on his forehead rose the magic horn, the sign
of his uniqueness: a tower held upright
by his alert, yet gentle, timid gait.

The mouth of softest tints of rose and grey, when
opened slightly, revealed his gleaming teeth,
whiter than snow. The nostrils quivered faintly:
he sought to quench his thirst, to rest and find repose.
His eyes looked far beyond the saint's enclosure,
reflecting vistas and events long vanished,
and closed the circle of this ancient mystic legend.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

Colleen McCullough
“If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!”
Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

Gregory Maguire
“It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?”
Gregory Maguire, Lost

year in books
Fern Cl...
167 books | 10 friends

Cyndy D...
485 books | 37 friends

Shanna ...
299 books | 42 friends

Leon Ruiz
82 books | 10 friends

Sondra ...
74 books | 6 friends





Polls voted on by Leonel

Lists liked by Leonel