Shadow Of The Wind Quotes

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

But in good time you’ll see that sometimes what matters isn’t what one gives but what one gives up.

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

The man who never reads lives only one.

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.

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.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.

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

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.

When ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ became a success I had already been a working writer, I’d been through the ups and downs, I’d seen how it worked.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it’s like electricity: you don’t need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.