People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys.... - 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."

"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."

"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."

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

"Few things are more deceptive than memories."