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Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)

Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that “love

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Paulo Coelho (12)

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

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Losing Something, realizations, Possession

“We all have one foot in a fairytale, and the other in the abyss.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Imagination, Reality, Illusion, Human Nature, The Split

“The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels freest, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships

“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. The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships

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

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships

“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a m…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Love

“and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Leaving, Heartbreak, Letting Go

“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.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, Freedom

“In love, no one can harm anyone else; we are each responsible for our own feelings and cannot blame someone else for what we feel.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Heartbreak, Love, Letting Go

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Waiting, Crisis, Revealing, Brilliant

“In the end, the most interesting people always leave.’”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Leaving, People

“Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or–such is the pleasure they experience–they may never finish it. No ele…”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

Tagged: Intimacy, Sex, Love, Relationships