If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we’re awake.
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away.
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
We all give up great expectations along the way.
So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
Quien quiere de verdad quiere en silencio, con hechos, nunca con palabras.
Viviamo nel ricordo di chi ci ama.