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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."