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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“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 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

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“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

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“You become a man when you give your family the best of who you are.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

“Let the world change you and you can change the world”
― Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“حتی در مورد بهترین چیزها باید آدم بتواند و به موقع دست نگه دارد”
― Romain Gary, خداحافظ گاری کوپر

“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won’t you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“No Mourners.
No Funerals.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite. ”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Mutlu son diye bir şey yoktu,mutluluk sonsuza kadar da sürmeyecekti,beyaz atlı prensim şu an kim bilir hangi kızı götürüyordu.”
― PuCCa, Ve Geri Kalan Her Şey

“Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“i have always been the woman of my dreams.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“Make Your wish Your Dream and Your Dream Your Goal; Your goal should be your passion to turn your wish into a reality”
― Ankit Mishra, Out of {b}Order

“She’d been in love with him for a while now. Longer than she wanted to admit. She tried not to think about it, whether he felt the same. Those things—those wishes—were at the bottom of a very, very long and bloody priority list. So”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“The Queen of Flame and Shadow, the Heir of Fire, Aelin of the Wildfire, Fireheart…”
― Sarah J. Maas, Empire of Storms

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.”
― Basho Matsuo

“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“The moment I walk into a bookstore, I remember what I love about them. They are an oasis of intellectual calm. Perhaps it’s the potential of all the ideas hidden behind those delicious covers. Or perhaps it’s the social reverence for the library-like quiet. You don’t yell in a bookstore; you’ll piss off the books.”
― Michael Lopp, Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook

“Why are you wearing a T-shirt under your other T-shirt?" Livvy asked.
"In case one of them is stolen," Marked said, as it were entirely normal.”
― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight