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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) QUOTES

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) QUOTES

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. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

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

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

4 " There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

5 " 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. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

6 " 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. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

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

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

8 " Few things are more deceptive than memories. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

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

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

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

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

11 " The dead never go to their own funeral. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

12 " 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) "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

13 " Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

14 " 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. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

15 " Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

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

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

17 " If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

18 " People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

19 " Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)

20 " They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)