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

"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."

"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."

"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

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