"Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ~
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Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
More Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes
"To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
"Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between it...
"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to ...
"This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those w...
"... 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 h...
"Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a ...
"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
"He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away ...
"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry insi...
"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step b...
"I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.
"Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)
"As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that...