It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.