I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.