I wanted to...feel hatred and love, despair and tedium — all those simple, yet foolish things that make up everyday life but that give pleasure to yo… - Paulo Coelho

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways — and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

Maktub,” she said. “If I am really part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.