Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.
You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
One can convert only a sinner, never a saint.
Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.
I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive
A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.
Every labyrinth has its minotaur
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.
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