Fernando Balow

“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

“You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul." A soul? That strange, ancient, long-forgotten word. We sometimes use the words "soul-stirring," "soulless," but "soul" ... ?  "Is it...very dangerous?" I muttered.  "Incurable," the scissors snapped.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Prisoner of Heaven

“Tenderly he reached for her and lightly took her hand, lifted it, and touched it to his lips.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Steel Blood