Shadow Of The Wind Quotes

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.

. . .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.

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

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

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

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

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

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

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

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

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

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

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

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

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.

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.

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

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

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

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

The man who never reads lives only one.

Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

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.

Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.

A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.

I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.