The Binder of Lost Stories Quotes

“Christian Philipp Fohr. The first volume in German of his only work: In Praise of Perfection, consisting of Discourse on Nature, Discourse on Humankind, and Discourse on Thought.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“As long as you remember me, I shall live on,”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“We love only what we do not wholly possess.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“You won’t find the solution you’re looking for in that book unless it already lives inside you. However formidable they are, books, my dear, are just sparks. The fire is only lit where there’s wood to kindle, so to speak.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“Got any books that teach people how to find themselves again?”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“Home would be more suitable—also by Toni Morrison, of course. It’s the story of a journey back. Retracing your own steps is often the only way of finding the courage to move forward.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“it’s a matter of constant application. Books have no secrets for someone who is always reading, and they certainly do not hide their position on the shelf.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“Petrarch’s epistle”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“descending on life, turning it upside down, wrenching at willpower as though it were dead leaves, dragging the whole heart down into the depths. —Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“Love, she was convinced, would arrive all of a sudden, with thunder and lightning—a heavenly storm”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“Without love, we are nothing. Remember that, and everything will turn out for the best.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“What do you want from life, Sofia? That’s the question you have to find an answer to.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“Things happen because it would be impossible for them not to. And out of those, others arise. You don’t put the roof on a house without building the walls first. There are sequences.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“If something isn’t working, there’s no use persisting.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories

“As long as you remember me, I shall live on,” her mother had said to her one evening, many years ago.”
― Cristina Caboni, The Binder of Lost Stories