I just started reading Paulo Coelho's Eleven Minutes last night and now I'm done! What a way to start Christmas vacation! <3

Here are some of the quotable lines from the book. :>

• When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side.
• LIfe moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds. 
• ...but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. 
• Men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.
• Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of the people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart. 
• Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. 
• I've realized that sometimes you get no second chance and that it's best to accept the gifts the world offers you. 
• The little experiences of life I've had has taught me that no one owns anything, that everything is an illusion. And if nothing belongs to me, then there's no pain wasting my time looking after things that aren't mine. 
• When it came to seductions, feelings and contracts, one should never play around.
• Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. 
• Her life consisted of endless hours spent waiting for a miracle, for true love, for an adventure with the same romantic ending she had seen in films and read about in books. 
• The only thing that can change someone's mind is love. 
• The second thing that could make a human being take a totally different course from the one he or she had planned; and that was called despair. Yes, perhaps love really could transform someone, but despair did the job more quickly. 
• In the search for happiness, however, we are all equal: none of us is happy. 
• That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but if you dare to ask a question, they don't know anything. 
• She found herself confronted by the feeling that so often pushes people into making hasty decisions--despair. 
• The world revolved around something that only took eleven minutes.
• Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.