Augusto Sales de Queiroz

“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

“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

“[...] 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