31 Quotes by Antonio Iturbe

A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world is different.

Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.

Throughout history, all dictators, tyrants, and oppressors, whatever their ideology – whether Aryan, African, Asian, Arab, Slav, or any other racial background; whether defenders of popular revolutions, or the privileges of the upper classes, or God’s mandate, or martial law – have had one thing in common: the vicious persecution of the written word. Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.

The most beautiful flowers emerge from the foulest dung heap. So maybe, thinks Dita, God isn’t a watchmaker but a gardener.

Adults are corrupted. That’s why young people are so important. You can still shape them, improve them.

We’re stronger than them because our hearts are stronger. We’re better than them because our hearts are more powerful.

A person waiting for you somewhere is like a match you strike at night in the couuntryside. It may not be able to light up everything, but it does show you the way back home.

Books are extremely dangerous; they make people think.

War is like an overflowing river: It’s hard to control and, if you put up a small barrier, it only gets swept along in its path.