Quotes on Shadow Of The Wind

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

The man who never reads lives only one.

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

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 inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that 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 we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.