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21 " Her face was lined with bitterness and her eyes looked glazed, tired of hating and weeping in solitude. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
22 " The very thought that the poor creature could still hold the slightest bit of affection for him or for the world seem too cruel. "
23 " Finally, in a slow, deliberate manner, and with a calm and authoritarian composure of a preacher who knows the meekness of his flock, he drew the microphone to his lips and began his homily. "
24 " This is where tragedies and romances began and ended, as did escapes and returns, betrayals and absences. Life, some said, is a railway station where one almost always enters, or it gets put into, the wrong carriage. "
25 " In the end Alicia had accepted that heavy piece as she done with so many of Leandro's offerings, in a tacit agreement of submission and pretense, where the unmentionable was sealed with a cold smile of politeness and a veil of silence, "
26 " I hope you find the path that I missed. "
27 " You believe what it's possible to believe, not what you want to believe. Unless you're an idiot, in which case it's the other way around. "
28 " When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is. You'll be cured eventually. "
29 " Hope is no more than the belief that that moment hasn’t yet come, "
30 " She'll live. I've already seen her return from among the dead once before, and those who learn the trick never forget it. I speak from experience. To return from the dead is a bit like riding a bike, or unfastening a girl's bra with a single hand. It's all a question of getting the knack. "
31 " Those who aren't able to fall in love suffer all the more. "
32 " I've never been one for naps. What I go for is insomnia elevated to an art form. I'll catch up on sleep when I die. "
33 " Are you sure you don't think that if you save someone decent, you'll save the world, or at least the possibility that something good might be left in it? "
34 " The most sincere pain is experienced alone. "
35 " A parent never sees his children grow old. To a father's eyes, they always seem like those kids who once looked up at him with veneration, convinced that he had the answers to all the mysteries of the universe. "
36 " Perhaps Bernarda was right after all, and in this lousy world, sometimes, some things did end the way they should. "
37 " Nobody succeeds without failing first. "
38 " Leandro’s thesis was that after a particular point in a man’s life, his future is invariably in his past. "
39 " One has to make one's own mistakes, not other people's. Do what you have to do and come back soon. Or whenever you can. "
40 " A couple of days without a dictator, and you Spaniards have already become bisexual. "