Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already hav... - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"Few things are more deceptive than memories."

"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."

"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."

"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."