“I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“If there's one thing I hate the Communists for, Your Excellency,' Foxa once said to Franco, 'it's for obliging me to join the Falange.” — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“Nobody remembers them, you know ? Nobody. Nobody remebers why they died, why they didnt have a wife and children and a sun lit room either, nobody, least of all people for whom they fought. There is no and there never will be some pathetic street in one pathetic village of a shitty country that is named after any of… — Javier Cercas Copy Share
“All good tales are true tales, at least for those who read them, which is all that counts.” — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“Naturally, I asked him what it'd been like to live through Pinochet's coup and the fall of Allende. Naturally, he regarded me with an… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“He (Antonio Machado) was old, weary and ill, and he no longer believed in Franco's defeat. He wrote 'This is the end; any day… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“Of course, if you ask, nobody was there when they torched the churches.” — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
“I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walking… — Javier Cercas Copy Share Image
