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The Shadow of the Wind

"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." --The New York Times Book Review A New York Times Bestseller Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the afterm

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Characters

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (18)

“...those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, In love, action in love, loving one another

“Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Heartbreak, pain in love, Unrequited Love, admiration

“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Doubt, Falling Out Of Love

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Literature, Identity

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Bibliophile, Reader, Literature, Reading

“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Loneliness, Pain, Sadness, Memories, Looking Back

“I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Memories, Loneliness

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: People, Living, Complicated, life-lessons

“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Perspective, Loving Someone

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Reflections, reflective, self

“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Doubt, Love, Falling Out Of Love

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: book, Writing, Dreams, Spiritual Growth

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Books, Reading, Book Lover, Book Worm, Literature

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, finances, Passion

“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.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Destiny, Hooker, Thief

“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, Passion, Career, Work

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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Lessons, Deep Thoughts, Life, Complicating Things