Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"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."

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

"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."

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

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