Quotes from book

Eleven Minutes

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“Now that she realized she had been waiting for him — she did not like that.”

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.”

“She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.”

“Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.”

“How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly?”

“Love is not to be found in someone else but in ourselves; we simply awaken it. But in order to do that, we need the other person.”

“All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that's a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

“I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.”

“That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.”

“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they're not.”

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn’t have the courage to say “yes” to life?”

“Really important meetings are planned by the souls long before the bodies see each other. Generally speaking, these meetings occur when we reach a limit, when we need to die and be reborn emotionally. These meetings are waiting for us, but more often than not, we avoid them happening. If we are desperate, though, if we have nothing to lose, or if we are full of enthusiasm for life, then the unknown reveals itself, and our universe changes direction.”