There are worse things than a prison of words.
("The Shadow of the Wind")
More Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafón:
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later-no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget-we will return.Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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