Few things are more deceptive than memories. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"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."

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

"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."