“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,”

“Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”

“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”

“If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.”

“That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.”

“Tell me Ignatius B., who has broken your heart and left you so angry?”

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