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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make...more

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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

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Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels ...more

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

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We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of t...more

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There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

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The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's...more

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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden i...more

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He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody reme...more

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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 ...more

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Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

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Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've l...more

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Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.