“... I had stayed still and let the days pass, which is the best way to allow things in the real world… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot know what it might… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
“For me that's the only way of understanding a particular term that everyone here bandies about quite happily, but which clearly can't… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
