I just finished reading a book called "The Shadow of the Wind."
It was amazing. Some fantastic lines, all of which are quoted from the book:
"The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population. And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church, and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
"Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
"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."
"Jesusa was often mistaken for a man, because she never grew breasts and began to shave before me. She died of consumption when she was twenty-two, a virgin to the end and secretly in love with a sanctimonious priest who, when he met her on the street, always said, 'Hello, Fermin, you're becoming quite a dashing young man.' Life's ironies."
The publishing phenomenon of the last year and a half. -The New York Times
Zafonmania... A thriller, a historical novel and a comedy of manners, but above all, the story of a tragic love...with great narrative skill, the author interweaves his plots and enigmas, like a set of Russian dolls in an unforgettable story about the secrets of the heart and the enchantment of books, maintaining the suspense right to the very last page. -La Vangaurdia
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