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

"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."

"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."

"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep."

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

"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."