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I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her wh...more

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The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

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Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

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Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels ...more

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Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enchantment was lifting, and all I had was painful de...more

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- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but...more

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The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

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Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

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He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your ...more

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I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that s...more

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Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a ...more

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Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

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The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.