That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

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

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

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.

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

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