She thinks about the other prostitutes who work with her. She thinks about her mother and her friends. They all believe that man feels desire for only eleven minutes a day, and that they'll pay a fortune for it. That's not true; a man is also a woman; he wants to find someone, to give meaning to his life. (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul. (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration. (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
She wasn't a victim of fate, she was running her own risks, pushing beyond her own limits, experiencing things which, one day, in the silence of her heart, in the tedium of old age, she would remember almost with nostalgia - however absurd that might seem. (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you. (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it (Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes")