“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”

—  Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

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