Quotes from book

The Shadow of the Wind

“You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.”

“Coincidences are the scars of fate.”

“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”

“Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.”

“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”

“That day was turning out to be longer than”

“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”

“Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.”

“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.”

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”

“Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.”

“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”

“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”

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

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

“When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.”

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”

“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”