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

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

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