“There are worse prisons than words.”
“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”
“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.”
“Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a time what the words were.”
“There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.”
“Sometimes the silence of your friends is worse than your enemy's words.”