Love is something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert.
Ever since I started building a reading habit, I’m exposing myself to the works of phenomenal authors. It’s one of the best things I did this year.
They built their own world through the written words. It’s amazing when stories are so immersive, you forget to drink the hot beverage you prepared for your reading session.
It happened to me. Reading “The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho enthralled me.
When people say that there’s something magical when you’re reading books, it’s true.
The magical experience happens when I imagine I’m playing the main character, side character, or the antagonist.
That’s how books grip you into their world.
The Alchemist has one of the most beautiful descriptions of love I’ve ever read:
“Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert.
Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well.
She smiled, and that was certainly an omen—the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life.
The omen he had sought to find with his sheep and in his books, in the crystals and in the silence of the desert.”
It was the boy who described love when he saw the woman whose head was covered in a veil.
Love is the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth can understand in their heart.
I’m almost finished reading this book. I’ll miss it when I’m done reading it. It’s a classic book about self-discovery.
Have you read any book that's so immersive you can’t put it down?
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