People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys.... - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."

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

"Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go."

"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."

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