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

“It’s been a long fucking time since hope.”
― 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

“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