“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didn’t at all expect, especially from our devoutly Catholic mother: they had both left instructions that their bodies be donated to science. We were bewildered and we were pissed. They wanted their cadavers to be used by...”

“But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”