In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.

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

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

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

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.