Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.