Quotes by : Javier Marías

We cannot know what time will do to us with its fine, indistinguishable layers upon layers, we cannot....

The day we didn't spend together, we will never spend together, what someone was going to say to us on....

Fiction has the ability to show us what we don’t know and what doesn’t happen.

Everything becomes a story and ends up drifting about in the same sphere, and then it's hard to differentiate....

Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to....

there are so many unpunished crimes in the world; indeed, they cover an area so vast, so ancient, so....

When you don’t know what to believe, when you’re not prepared to play the amateur detective, then....

But until that happens -- and however brief a life, it will take a while -- there is a terrible, hateful....

What happened is the least of it. It’s a novel, and once you’ve finished a novel, what happened in....

We do tend to believe things while we're hearing or reading them. Afterwards, it's another matter, when....