“When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

“Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

“Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.”

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”

“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.”

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”