“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers
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