Now he understood. He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same movement of her ash-grey eyes, without knowing who she was or why she smiled at him.

“You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why yo…”

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intel…”

“Cuando una biblioteca desaparece, cuando una librería cierra sus puertas, cuand…”

“[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the sma…”