I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.