Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

When I want to take God at his word exactly, I take a peep out the window at His creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us everyday.

It's simplicity itself that its future will be way worse than its past.

When Allah decides a matter, it is done.

If I listen long enough, the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.