Augusto Sales de Queiroz

“The things that look fixed in the world, child—mountains, wealth, empires—their permanence is only an illusion We believe they will last, but that is only because of the brevity of our own lives.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“For it to reach us in this room, in this hour, the lines within had to survive a dozen centuries. A scribe had to copy it, and a second scribe, decades later, had to recopy that copy, transform it from a scroll to a codex, and long after the second scribe’s bones were in the earth, a third came along and recopied it again, and all this time the book was being hunted. One bad tempered abbot, one clumsy friar, one invading barbarian, an overturned candle, a hungry worm—and all those centuries are undone.”
― 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

“It’s been a long fucking time since hope.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land