best stories whose example you hopefully DO NOT follow — “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He’s always, always in my mind…

when books find words you can’t, to describe how to go on after this annus horribilis — Nature has cunning ways of finding our weakest spot.* No quote could describe better how this year has been for me, for us, in fact. I doubt many people will come out of it unchanged. For better or worse, that remains to be seen. Most of us are left with…

versus being simple — It was just a phrase popped out during a work dinner some years ago: “If they are not strange enough, we don’t hire them”. So, I was being considered strange. Right away, I laughed. It was hilarious. Then I figured out it wasn’t a joke. Someone believed I belonged to…

and how he made the world seem like a better place — He had big, curious eyes and the sweetest gaze you could ever imagine. I understand you, he said without saying anything. His light brown and whitish fur reminded people of the colour of their favourite drink. A nice hot cup of Cappuccino. That’s why they baptized him that way. He…

what Carlos Ruiz Zafón taught me about my mysteries — Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. I still remember the day my father took me to the annual book fair in Tirana and for the first time, I fell in love. It was more than a decade ago. We used to go there every year. As a family of book producers, it was a tradition for…

Through the self-deceiving hell of clichés to the paradise of all truths — Hell of Lies I want to tell you a story. This is my first story and probably I am not very good at it. Sorry about that! English is not my best language either. …

and you don’t even know why — Have you ever heard the quote: “Football is a metaphor of life”? I know a lot of men have. What I didn’t know is that Jean-Paul Sartre himself said it. Yes, a philosopher! …