Augusto Sales de Queiroz

“[...] 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

“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

“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

“But whatever this strange old comedy was, it wasn’t a proper or elevated or concerned with getting things right. It was a story intended to bring comfort to a dying girl.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land