The truth is what hurts

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

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

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.