The Archer (2020) by Paulo Coelho & The Way of the Bow
“You were the one who chose the target and you are responsible for it.”
Where Books and Readers Come Together
“You were the one who chose the target and you are responsible for it.”
“At that moment, she basked in a world without questions or answers. Without doubts or convictions. She basked in a world that was one with her.”
“Death and love—no, I cannot make a poem of them, they don’t go together. Love stands opposed to death.”
“You must intentionally become what you desire.”
“When I got to the sixth veil, I went over to the Shiva statue, simulated an orgasm, and cast myself to the ground while removing the seventh and final veil.”
“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).
“She was intoxicated by her brilliant, crimson dream until a bullet pierced her chest.”
“Well, to me, that’s what love is. Not that anyone can understand me, though.”
“To love abundantly is to live abundantly. To love forever is to live forever.”
“Small minds cannot grasp great ideas.”
A Warrior of the Light “is someone capable of understanding the miracle of life, of fighting to the last for something he believes in—and of hearing the bells that the waves set ringing on the seabed.”
“He turned to me. ‘It’s a very simple sentence,’ he said. ‘I love you.’”
An Essay
“We kill our dreams because we are afraid to fight the good fight.”
A book you’d like to keep by your bedside to read a chapter each night before sleep or upon waking early in the morning.














