Finally a book that I enjoyed the end very much
Although the write is Brazilian like myself, I read the book in English thus in English my comments shall be
It is a lovely book that talks about magic, energy and I felt I read it in a perfect time. Alone, when I can refer to things about myself.
The story is about the 21 years old Brida from a small village in Ireland living in Dublin and searching for life wisdom, specifically the path to Love. Eager to know how to find her Soulmate., she eventually meets those who became her Teachers (Magus and Wicca) that are able to show her the way. She discovers who she was in the past, and who she still is today, a witch (I found a lot of similarities with the Harry Potter story, but I think that's only me), and in fact she does find her Soulmate. It can only be this way, because the Soulmates will one way or another meet again.
There are quite a few quotes that I enjoyed, here are are some of them:
“The night is just a part of the day”
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day”
"The trick I’m referring to is the phone. For millions of years, we only ever spoke to someone we could see, then, in less than a century, ‘seeing’ and ‘speaking’ were suddenly separated. We think it’s quite normal now and don’t realize the huge impact it has on our reflexes. Our body still hasn't got used to it"
“You could tell your soul mate by the light in their eyes, and since the time began, that has been how people have recognized their true love.”
"Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none"
“Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere”
“And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness”
“People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to posses a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower in the field, you'll keep it forever. That is what the forest taught me. That you will never be mine, and that is why i will never lose you.
"I will always remember you, and you will remember me, just as we will remember the evening, the rain on the window, and all the things we'll always have because we cannot possess them”
“Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have to give up all the other important things"
The last two quotes summarises the end of the book.
I forgot I enjoyed reading Paulo Coelho's books, will look for some more.
(From Farnham library)
