Elsa

“There's nothing here. Nothing at all.'

Marina gave me a look that I could not fathom.

'You're wrong,' she said. 'The memories of hundreds of people lie here. Their lives, their feelings, their expectations, their absence, the dreams that never came true for them, the disappointments, the deceptions and the unrequited loves that poisoned their existence... All that is here, trapped for ever.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“To him, nature was a merciless beast that fed on its young without caring about the fate of the beings it harboured.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“Days fell off the calendar like dead leaves”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina

“Sooner or later the ocean of time brings back the memories we submerge in it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina