“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Women never bought Freud's idea of penis envy: who would want a shotgun when you can have an automatic?”
― Woman: An Intimate Geography
― Woman: An Intimate Geography
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