The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone,... - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"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."

"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

"Few things are more deceptive than memories."

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