Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a lout, however, ….

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 def….

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 conversati….

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative..

She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full of hope, who fill….

In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived….

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to be….

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the go….

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect..

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those w….

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..

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world..

Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world..

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

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station..

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened..

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….

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling tha….

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short..

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind..

Memories are worse than bullets..