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

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

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

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.