A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

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.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.