After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
("The Shadow of the Wind")
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Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, ultil the moment comes when we no longer reconize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
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In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
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How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
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A room without books ..is like a body without a soul.
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