A Charmed Life Quotes

“I have seen many manorial fortresses like Gasteluzar before, but Jaureguizar simply took my breath away. It was a grand old caserío, simple as all first ideas, primitive like all rough drafts. Its coarsely-hewn stones gave the mansion a certain unpretentious nobility and grandeur. The large two-story building with its swayback roof just sat there with a pained look of age about it, almost as if each stone’s once-fond affection for its neighboring stone had waned, wearied of the weight and togetherness of eons. A feeling of age clung to everything about it, as if Time, in a moment of weakness, had chosen to spare it, tucking it away in one of its cobwebbed back rooms. Though not a ruin, the building flirted dangerously with the idea.”
― José María Lacambra Loizu, A Charmed Life: A Memoir

“I had been intrigued by our textbook’s mention of the evolution of religion from awe and wonder to ritual and dogma. To his surprise,”
― José María Lacambra Loizu, A Charmed Life: A Memoir