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1 " The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
2 " 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. "
3 " One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it. "
4 " There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. "
5 " We all give up great expectations along the way. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
6 " Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. "
7 " that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
8 " 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. "
9 " People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. "
10 " Few things are more deceptive than memories. "
11 " Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. "
12 " There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. "
13 " We are willing to believe anything other than the truth. "
14 " The dead never go to their own funeral. "
15 " The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ... "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
16 " Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere) "
17 " If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened. "
18 " Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to "
19 " Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. "
20 " I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. "
