“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― 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.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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