Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don... - 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."

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

"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."

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

"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep."