Status Updates From Wind, Sand and Stars

"Whenever they (Moors) turned up we would try to tame a few of them in order to establish a little nuclei of friendship in the desert; thus if we were forced down among them there would be at any rate a few who might be persuaded to sell us into slavery rather than massacre us" (95).

"Nous nous étions enfin rencontrés. On chemine longtemps côte à côte, enfermé dans son propre silence, ou bien l'on échange des mots qui ne transportent rien. Mais voici l'heure du danger. Alors on d'épaule l'un l'autre. On découvre que l'on appartient à la même communauté. On s'élargit par la découverte d'autres consciences. "

"What filled me with a barbaric joy was that I had understood a murmured monosyllable of this secret language, and sniffed the air and known what was coming, like one of those primitive men to whom the future is revealed in such faint rustlings; it was that I had been able to read the anger of the desert in the beating wings of a dragonfly" (111).

"In those days our planes frequently fell apart in mid-air, and because of this the African divisions were always flown by two ships, one without the mails trailing and convoying the other, prepared to take over the sacks in the event the mail plane broke down" (85).

"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away" (42).

Having read and loved "The Little Prince" many times, and seeing this book mentioned in "The Goldfinch", which I just finished, it seemed high time to explore this National Book Award Winner that the cover of my copy says National Geographic named a "Top Ten Adventure Book of All Time".

A escrita dele é incrível, realmente. Tô com pena de acabar.

It’s been hard to get into so far

I try to limit myself to only read a page per day because this is genuinely the most beautiful book I've ever read and I don't want it to end. It's so lyrical and devastating

عندئذ شعرنا حقا أننا تائهون في فضاء ما بين الكواكب، وسط مائة كوكب يستحيل الوصول إليها، باحثين عن الكوكب الحقيقي الوحيد، كوكبنا، الوحيد الذي يحوي مناظرنا المألوفة، منازلنا الصديقة، حناننا، ذلك الكوكب الوحيد الذي يحوي..

Tava ansioso pra ler esse. Acho que vou acabar buscando mais livros dele.