Shadow Of The Wind Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, George R. R. Martin and many others.

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?
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres – The Shadow of the Wind.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever.
A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.
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.
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery” – 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.
But in good time you’ll see that sometimes what matters isn’t what one gives but what one gives up.
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.
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
People talk too much. Humans aren’t descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
Destiny doesn’t do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
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.
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.