There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. - Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."

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

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

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

"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."