In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

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

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.