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141 " She's a bit nutty. She spends all day reading. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
142 " L'ansia è la ruggine dell'anima. "
143 " The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer. If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is to win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus. "
144 " I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design.” “You say this as if you envied him.” “There are worse prisons than words, Daniel. "
145 " A good father, if you see what I mean.” “A good father?” “Yes. Like yours. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he’s his father but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble. "
146 " Als guter Affe ist der Mensch ein soziales Wesen, und als wesentliche Norm ethischen Verhaltens zeichnen ihn Vetternwirtschaft, Nepotismus, Schwindel und Klatsch aus. "
147 " What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. "
148 " and I kissed his forehead, as if by doing so I could protect him from the invisible threads that kept him away from me, from that tiny apartment, and from my memories, as if I believed that with that kiss I could deceive time and convince it to pass us by, to return some other day, some other life. "
149 " It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and I knew that the best part of my life was already behind me. "
150 " Julián had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. "
151 " El día que comprenda usted que el negocio de los libros es miseria y compañía y decida aprender a robar un banco, o a crear uno, que viene a ser lo mismo, venga a verme y le explicaré cuatro cosas sobre cerrojos. "
152 " París es la única ciudad del mundo donde morirse de hambre todavía es considerado un arte. "
153 " Todo lo que le sobraba de inteligencia le faltaba de sentido práctico. Su interés en el mundo real se concentraba en aspectos como la sincronía de los semáforos de la Gran Vía, los misterios de las fuentes luminosas de Montjuïc o los autómatas del parque de atracciones del Tibidabo. "
154 " Ejército, matrimonio, Iglesia y banca: los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis. "
155 " That afternoon he invited me to his house for an after-school snack and showed me his collection of strange gadgets made from bits of scrap metal, which he kept in his room. "
156 " People who have no life always have to stick their nose in the life of others, "
157 " When we stand in front of a coffin, we see only what is good, or what we want to see. "
158 " —No sé yo mucho de mujeres, la verdad. —Saber no sabe nadie, ni Freud, ni ellas mismas, "
159 " Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años. "
160 " Era una imagen de luz y de esperanza que prometía cosas que sólo existen en las miradas de pocos años. "