#book quotation

The true wonder of life is precisely because of its briefness; to be a momentary spark in an otherwise eternal oblivion, a spark that dances, laughs, loves in defiance of that endless gloom. To live forever is not to live at all.

"When you travel with heroes favored by gods, you start to realize that you're nothing more than an acceptable sacrifice."

"No, he's a man. I always suspect they'll double cross me,"

"I am too old for many things," said the Minotaur. "But the day I'm too old for children's books will be a very dark day indeed"

Sometimes a person, an achievement or a place—whatever is missing—seems the perfect shape to fill a void, so much so that its absence seems to be the cause of the problem and its presence the solution. But up close, the voids are always much larger

“I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.”