Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Booking

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.”

“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”

“I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”