There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.

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

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.

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

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.