Quotes from book

The Shadow of the Wind

“Hope is cruel and has no consequence”

“Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.”

“You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, andanyone can live to a hundred.”

“I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.”

“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.”

“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”

“Some things have to be seen in the shadows”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”

“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”

“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”

“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

“Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.”