The joy of giving

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

So long as we are being remembered……………..

 

“So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

 

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

What is really killing him is loneliness

“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness.

Memories are worse than bullets.”

 Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind 

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books

Vintage Everyday

After a while…………..

“After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

Sexy reader

Books are mirrors

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, “ The Shadow of the Wind”