Augusto Sales de Queiroz

“But books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“In this way, Agassiz presented nature as a sacred text. Even the dullest slug or dandelion could offer spiritual and moral guidance to those humans curious enough to look.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“[...] a story is a way of stretching time. [...] Anna imagines Antonius Diogenes, whoever he was, setting knife to quill, quill to ink, ink to scroll, placing one more barricade in front of Aethon, stretching time for another purpose: to detain his niece in the living world for a little longer.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“What’s so beautiful about a fool is that a fool never knows when to give up.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land