"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 walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."
"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."