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“Some things have to be seen in the shadows”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: somethings can only be seen in the shadows
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“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 book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“If you don't know where you're going, you won't go anywhere.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

“Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

“Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game