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

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

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

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