A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to te... - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."

"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it."

"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 hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."

"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."

"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 only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."