Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

We exist as long as somebody remembers us.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.