“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.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.”
― The Forgotten Garden
― The Forgotten Garden
“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.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Memories are worse than bullets.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.”
― The Forgotten Garden
― The Forgotten Garden
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