Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.

There are worse prisons than words.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

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