Augusto Sales de Queiroz

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

“Like a good boy, he obeyed: he stopped making maps. But like a real boy, he did not. Not really.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“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

“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