“Memories are worse than bullets.”

“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”

“There are worse prisons than words.”

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

“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 that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design.""You say this as if you envied him.""There are worse prisons than words.”

“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 burn his soul.”