Javier Marías, Los Enamoramientos Quotes

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when the book is closed and the voice stops speaking.

an odious crime, as old as the Bible and for an utterly despicable motive too and carried out in a cowardly manner, making use of intermediaries.

We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.