Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow Of The Wind

Quotes

• “After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be di...”
• “As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable eve...”
• “Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us o...”
• “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and live...”
• “Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other ...”
• “If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest...”
• “One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is ab...”
• “I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my han...”
• “A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherw...”
• “In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best fri...”
• “The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”
• “Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
• “I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”
• “People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
• “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
• “One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.”
• “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
• “Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”
• “There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”
• “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
• “Few things are more deceptive than memories.”