Carlos Ruiz Zafón quote: In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into ...

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ~

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