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

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.